For my Integrating Activity project at Dawson College, I will be using my passion in beading and create an image of a scenery of an Inuk hunter and a seal on a battle between their lives on ice. I will use more than ten different colours of beads and a seal shaped sealskin that will be attached on a hard felt fabric of 8 x 9. Traditional seal hunts practiced by Inuit within the culture is controversial that animal right activists are against. My project will present Inuit knowledge of our culture that the media fail to recognize or bring misconceptions of animal hunts that Inuit practice ethically and sustainably. My project will share a message that seal hunts, from the history to this day, are used both for survival and market, while the skin or meat is left with nothing wasted. Poverty is one of the issues that affect Inuit within Nunavik and Nunavut in one of the most developed countries. The battle between the Inuk and the seal that I will portray in my beading is the highlight of seal hunting, and that the hunter melts snow in his mouth and spit the water inside the seal’s mouth so that it’s spirit won’t thirst after life. Seal hunting is either between the person or the animal. If the person catches the seal, the meat and skin will be provided to feed the entire family for months. Or, if the seal frees, the family will starve. I chose to work on sharing my talent on beading and using sealskin to connect with Inuit, Indigenous people, Canadians, and animal right activists while sharing Inuit perspectives.
Schedule:
Oct 16 – 23 Brainstorm and find inspirations
Oct 23 – Nov 6 Prepare materials: Beads, sealskin, threads and needles, hard felt fabric
Nov 13 – 20    Start the project and present the process
Nov 20 – 27   Still on Process
Dec 04 –  Complete the project
Dec 11 – Final SubmissionÂ