Inukshuk

[jimmyj]

Here is one of my seat time outputs. It's about 7 and a half feet tall. I made it about 2 months ago.

 

[Samandothers]

Wow tractor art. Very creative!

 

[Thomas]

Moon light w/little distance I'd think twice before apporching quickly.

Nice work.

 

[Scooby074]

...and now the tractor people will know we were here.

 

[Egon]

Will you be adding a rock every time you go by?

 

[tugboat-2]

jimmy : . . . perhaps you should explain "Inukshuk" to those that don't know the deeper meaning of this Eskimo stone sculpture? I don't know how far south this sculpture goes,...if it even leaves Canada yet, does it?

Anyway,...7 feet WOW, that's the largest one I've seen,...average is about 2 ft for the many I've seen twixt say Guelph and Kirkland Lake or Cochrane and one a little bigger north of Elliot Lake along the Little White River. Every where you go especially in Northern Ontario, (and likely across Canada?),..people stop along the highway and build them where others will see.

My own is less than a foot high,..if that? A bigger one this year maybe? It is pronounced as: In-oook-shoook" meaning in the "image of man" and is supposed to be a guidepost to point you towards home. The Inuit people used it for hunting and other directional things, I believe, .... but that is "my" basic understanding,...there is likely a lot more to them than that but now you have "my personal" interpretation of "Inukshuk".

But yours is quite beautiful Jimmy,...nice job,....you didn't tell me you were an artist,..... but you just proved it! Yours will still stand hundreds of years from now! (By then the people will think it was built by the Inuit thousands of years ago and they will treasure it and carefully move it to stand in the courtyard of City Hall). What does it mean to you? Those are "large" and beautiful "stones" (rocks) are they from your farm, if so, how lucky to find them!

CHEERS! . . and Happy New Year !!
. . tug

 

[czechsonofagun]

Here is one of my seat time outputs. It's about 7 and a half feet tall. I made it about 2 months ago.

Getting ready for a significant tameshiwari?

 

[jimmyj]

Thanks all. I got the rocks from here and there - some came from a lansdscaper buddy who had some left over. Others just from local farms. (Ironically there isn't a danged stone on my property and the farmers think I am loco when I am all happy if I am permitted to take "free rocks" from their farms).

Tug, good point. An Inukshuk is an eskimo statue of stones in the shape of a human. It means "we were here" sort of. Inukshuk Gallery - What is an Inukshuk?

Prokop, I did not know what tameshiwari meant, I had to look it up. Yikes! No thanks.

I was very careful actually to make it sturdy so it can't be pushed over by kids or minor bumps. If a car hits it, all bets are off though. It's kind of tucked into some trees after you start up our lane from the sideroad. A passing car would just catch a glimpse and I think the placement, with the trees and grade in the background is kind of neat.

Plus, it got me about an hour in the seat of my beloved Great Pumpkin.

 

[tugboat-2]

lol : hee, hee, . . I wonder if Inukshuk was a relative of old "Killroy"(was here)?

Beautiful job Jimmy,...glad to see it is solid and sturdy !!

CHEERS!
. . tug __,,,_(. .)_,,,_ (just need a nose to hang over the fence)