Lipa pitsiulak biography of william

“I do drawings that may not seem to make any sense at all to some people because they are about the really old, old way of life. My drawings seem to come from up in the air and they don’t seem to be going anywhere until I put them on paper or carve them.

The images might not make sense to someone who doesn’t know the Inuit way of life” (Lypa Pitsiulak in Latocki ).

“When I was a boy, I used to try to do carving.

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I only started drawing seriously when drawing was encouraged in Pangnirtung by Gary Magee. Before that I used to try drawing on the window of my tent when there was frost. The window was made out of the dried intestine of a square flipper.

I used my fingers for drawing different kinds of pictures. I never really thought about using pencil and paper as it was hard to get hold of paper to draw on” (Pitsiulak in Latocki ).

Lipa is influenced by ancestors, the old ways of living, and his family history, including his father’s observations: “They are not tales or legends, but thi