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Warm Friend of a Cold Land: A Profile of James Houston |
| Section: LIFE / PROFILE |
| Author: Eric P. Olsen |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1998 |
| Size: 2,943 Words, 17,896 Characters |
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James Houston's emergency flight into the fabled Arctic almost fifty years ago was a turning point for the young artist--and for the indigenous peoples of the Canadian north.
Living in igloos and surviving on raw fish and game for fourteen Arctic winters, artist James Houston knows nature as an adversary but also a friend and mentor. "The wonder of the Arctic," he wrote in an affectionate memoir, Confessions of an Igloo Dweller (1995), "is not its physical vastness, but its smallness, its intimacy."
Houston's Arctic is the intimate seasonal pattern of camp life. It is the reduction of existence to the dim interior of an igloo while a howling winter storm draws an opaque curtain about the universe. It is the revelation of a urine stain on a rock in the trackless wilderness, or the s...
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...like. So they can create things that are quite wonderful."
Observant, resourceful, and creative--qualities that amount to survival instincts among the Inuit--James Houston has produced a dazzling body of creative work. But for his adopted people Houston is more than a gifted artist and writer. He is even more than a friend and benefactor. He is called simply angot, "the man, preeminently."
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