Neal McLeod
sons of a lost river
- Publisher
- Mendel Art Gallery
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2012
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896359670
- Publish Date
- Apr 2012
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Description
Neal McLeod: Sons of a Lost River, organized by Mendel's Chief Curator Dan Ring, presented a series of painted by the Mcleod which explored the theme of the wîhtikow, "a dark-spirit being who consumes humans in order to satisfy greed and self-absorption" McLeod's narrative, based in Cree oral traditions can be thought of as metaphor for issues of personal, cultural and collective memory as tied to the local landscape and history. The exhibition title, Sons of a Lost River, is also the title of a poem in Gabriel's Beach, McLeod's second book of poems. In the poem, the ever-changing Saskatchewan River serves as a link to the present and the past and the continuing work of the Cree and Métis people to surive collective trauma and revival cultural memory through oral narratives.