I Met My Soul, Thomas Iksiraq (Inuit, Baker Lake), 1998 Woodcut + Stencil, Pencil Signed Print (ed. 40) folk art standing frame On the interior of the

On the interior of the lid are two cranes

Very similar in manner to a Victorian die cut and paper lace valentine

including reminders to pay the jeweler

Perhaps it was once part of a tablecloth decoration

A few minor fold lines on the legs of the horses too

I Met My Soul, Thomas Iksiraq (Inuit, Baker Lake), 1998 Woodcut + Stencil, Pencil Signed Print (ed. 40) folk art standing frame On the interior of theI found this one on Ebay, purchased from a dealer in Canada; I'm always on the hunt for original Inuit drawings, and while this is a print (woodcut with stencil; edition of 40), I think it has the immediacy of a drawing, and it just completely leapt out to me, so strikingly graphic, and unusual feeling too, almost surrealist in sensibility. (I think of Man Ray's Indestructible Object, the metronome with photograph of Lee Miller's eye, ticking back and