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B225 – “Ancestors Say Climate Change is Affecting the Tilt of the Earth” (2023) SOLD

Artist: Manasie Akpaliapik (1955 – cont.) of Ikpiarjuk, Nunavut and Ontario

Signature: Signed to the vertebra in Inuktitut syllabics

Medium: Weathered Narwhal vertebra, string

Dimensions: H: 10.5” x W: 17.0” x D: 8.25”

Condition: Excellent

Realising the reality of Climate change: “when we are living in it we don’t recognise the effects of climate change, but looking at it from the outside it is easier to see. My carving shows how, according to the ancestors, the earth is tilting on its axis as climate change evolves.”