as I walk Toronto

The Art Gallery of Ontario has recently acquired two new paintings by Ojibwe artist Travis Shilling.   Both paintings are from a series of 11 paintings titled “Tyrannosaurus Clan” that depict varies spirit animals looking over, or observing, people building a pipeline through a subdued coloured landscape.  The people are unaware that they are being watched; there is no interaction between the two.

  below: An owl perches on a piece of heavy equipment in this painting that is simply titled “Owl”.

below: A dinosaur type creature embodies other species in “The Excavators”