This is built on the work of many people who wrote the tools, did the research and recorded the sounds, and shared them. Each is listed here, with a link to their own work.
Each painting opens as a place you can enter and fly over freely. Its light and dark are read as land, so every ridge and hollow is the paint itself. The sky over it is real and the weather where you are.
It runs in an ordinary web browser, with nothing to install or buy, the same for anyone with a link.
Two drawings by Qavavau Manumie, joined into one line for Abu Dhabi. In progress.
Kenojuak Ashevak’s woman between two great fish, across a wall and a narrow panel at Oakridge Park.
Ningiukulu Teevee’s woman in her amauti, dancing on tiptoe beside a column of berries, at the entrance of the Paris flagship.
Mary Pudlat’s Nuna Sukaq: people stacked into a cairn, a bird at the very top.
A child in a parka holds up a tree full of birds, and the branches run on across the next wall. Alex drew it from his own Story Tree of 2020, which began with Qavavau Manumie’s Breath of Life.
Drawings by Inuit artists from Kinngait, redrawn by Alex Fischer as a single flowing line and raised in plaster on the walls of Canada Goose stores in Oak Brook, Paris, Milan and Vancouver.
Each wall begins with an artist’s drawing and Alex’s reading of it: what to keep, what to join, how a line can carry the whole picture. NAMARA led the project for Canada Goose; a team of plaster artists, Alex among them, brought the lines out of the walls.