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Kitawa - The Thinking Hand and the Making Mind (Hardcover)
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Sketching and carving both visualize and memorize a given image,
but within Nowau culture the manner in which this is achieved in a
canoe prowboard is entirely different than in a conventional
drawing. When studying the impressive ceremonial canoes of Kitawa,
in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea, G.M.G. Scoditti
became struck by the absolute predominance of the artist's mind in
the process of creating images: all its stages, its uncertainties
and experimentation, must unfold within its silent, rarefied space.
Only once fully formed can the image be revealed to the village in
material form. Reflecting on the absence of orthographic writing
within Nowau culture, and finding parallels with poetic and musical
composition, Scoditti gained further insight into the Nowau
processes of creation through the critiques the Kitawan carvers
made of his own fieldwork sketchbooks. Spurred on by their
curiosity, the anthropologist handed over his art materials to the
master carvers to make their own drawings on paper or cardboard.
Traditional pigments used on the polychrome canoe prowboards were
added to the unfamiliar media of watercolour, acrylic, coloured
pencils and ballpoint pen. Three-dimensional ornamentation became
two-dimensional as images of self-decoration and huts were added to
those of prowboards. This exercise was all the more fascinating
given the prohibition of drawing on the surface of the wood before
carving. On return to Italy, further graphic dialogues unfolded
when an architect and an artist from the tradition of Italian
Abstraction responded with their own intriguingly different
interpretations of the canoe prowboard and its relationship to the
Nautilus shell. All these drawings are brought together in this
book, along with Scoditti's own sketches from fieldwork and
ethnographic collections in Newcastle upon Tyne and Rome. 'The
fieldworker's or museum ethnographer's sketches are never going to
be quite the same. Through the double filter of Kitawan philosophy
and Scoditti's ruminations, the apparently simple triad of sketch -
drawing - carving opens out into a discourse on the creative mind.
The Kitawan creator - here primarily the male carver - does not
have to demonstrate how he creates, and what springs from these
pages have a fascination of their own. Several distinctive hands,
Kitawan and Italian, reflect from different interpretive and
professional vantage points on the very process of drawing through
doing exactly that, drawing. The result are images that delight and
challenge, sensitively assembled, beautifully reproduced. An
extraordinary record of creativity, and a rare corpus of visual
memorials.' - Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, University of
Cambridge
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