Everyday Objects Blended With Simple Sketches by Javier Perez [via]
Previously: Famous Paintings on Bread
Local aboriginal artist Martha Campiou had her artwork stolen from storage unit
After the death of her son, Campiou, a well-known aboriginal artist and Edmonton resident of 40 years, left the home she shared with him out of grief and moved in with friends for support.
Unable to keep her crafts with her, Campiou moved many of her personal belongings and artwork into a storage locker at Guardian Storage Ltd. at 14350 111 St. to keep them safe until she felt more settled, at least that’s what she thought.
On Sept. 21, while the cameras at the storage facility were out of operation during upgrading, five lockers at the facility were broken into. Of those five lockers, only two had items missing. One reported the loss of CDs and records, while Campiou’s was cleaned out except for an old box spring mattress and an out-of-date sewing machine.
“They took absolutely everything,” said Campiou, adding “I was devastated, I was in shock for about a week, just thinking this can’t be happening, somebody’s played a trick on me.”
Among the missing items were deer skin dresses and a deer skin coat covered in intricate beadwork, as well as beadwork for moccasins, porcelain dolls and jewelry all done in keeping with aboriginal traditions.
Each beaded mukluk takes about one month to make, with larger pieces like coats taking over six months. The theft has set her back years of work and cost her thousands in income.
“This is my livelihood, this is my life,” said Campiou, adding “losing everything that you worked hard over the years for, it’s enough to make you give up.”Active in her community, Campiou shares teachings of her Metis heritage at schools and to community groups, bringing along aboriginal artifacts handed down through family.
These relics, including birch bark baskets and a traditional drum, were also stolen.
“These are irreplaceable,” said Campiou.
Also in the unit were family treasures, photo albums and items collected from her late son’s childhood, items she had hoped to pass on to her grandson who only has a handful of pictures of his father.
“They’re of value to no one else except my family,” said Campiou. “I was keeping a lot of the items for [my grandson] as he grew older.”
Still mourning the loss of her son, the stress of the theft has left Campiou feeling broken and violated, unable to sleep and reluctant to eat.
“I don’t know if I’m praying for strength anymore,” said Campiou, “because maybe if I didn’t have all that strength this wouldn’t happen.”
To make matters worse, as she still struggles to find the emotional strength to deal with her trauma her vehicle was struck from behind in a serious collision last week that damaged her shoulders, back and left side of her collar bone.
“I feel like I have a dark cloud over me, with all of this happening,” Campiou said.
Despite all of the recent hardships she has had to overcome, Campiou is “turning to our way” and is thankful for the support she has received from her family, friends and community.
“I’m grateful for all my friends, and I’m grateful for all my family, and I’m grateful that at least can wake up in the morning and have the willingness to keep going,” Campiou said, “that I have the capacity to take one step at a time and just keep going.”
A fundraiser and silent auction is being held at Ebenezer Hall at 16302 106 Ave on Nov. 12 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Artists are invited to submit their work. For more information, contact organizer Lyle Donald at 780-910-3625.
Please boost this.
This is horrible.
This makes me feel so sick, boost the hell out of this!
if this happened to me i would die. i hope they find her stuff, this is awful.
Marseille - Basilique Notre Dame de La Garde.
Photo from the interior of the Basilic.
submitted by: viagensefotos, thanks!
people saying 2013 sucked are obviously not fall out boy fans
THEY CAME TO MELBOURNE TWICE. TWICE IN ONE YEAR
Winey Sensitive Artist Rant
I find it a little agitating that I’ve got heaps more likes for my in progress work for my poster then I do my actual poster. I mean yeah it may seem like I’m looking a gift horse in the mouth but you know 9 notes for the whole poster - colour, lines, kit and caboodle, took me over 30 hours to make and over 50 notes for just the shadows on Patricks face? I mean *eyebrow twitch* really?
Newmann Fic
I wish I had the time to write a Newmann fic. It would be glorious. Their relationship is a stunning mass of contradictions that would be an absolute pleasure to play on. I’ve had stories about them buzzing around in my head about their first meeting, what happens in the time following the events of Pacific Rim (I actually started one but it would be a long'n and I’m still halfway through my 1930s destiel roadtrip one). It would be so much fun. I’m missing writing. Think I’m gonna be missing it for a long time yet.
Acting
You know what I think is funny about acting? I feel like a lot of what we see on tv and in movies is what we perceive to be a reasonable amount of emotion, a reasonable amount of damage after certain events or a reasonable amount of happiness because of something but the tiniest things can illicit the largest emotions. I got an email from a teacher reviewing a project of mine and it was such a positive lovely review that I cried a lil bit. Now on a tv show that would have people rolling their eyes and huffing like how ridiculous but in the real world stuff like this happens. I’ve seen women throw themselves onto the graves of their dead loved ones in hysterics because grief is a powerful and terrible beast. But when Rick falls over on tv because Lori died my mum was like ‘oh come on he’s hamming it up a bit’ I just think we’re a little unreasonable in the way that we judge some performances (*cough* Skyler *cough*) because we assume that certain events warrant a certain amount of emotion and if that is 'overstepped’ by the actor that becomes 'overplayed’ an we judge them for it. I just think that acting is the most impressive, difficult and beautiful art and I think that it must be really hard to be an actor and play emotions. Make yourself suffer, make yourself happy, make yourself confused all convincingly.
sabellart
