{"id":17063,"date":"2019-02-06T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=17063"},"modified":"2019-02-04T11:32:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T19:32:52","slug":"coast-salish-carver-creates-new-totem-pole-at-interurban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/02\/06\/coast-salish-carver-creates-new-totem-pole-at-interurban\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Salish carver creates new totem pole at Interurban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s always challenging and exciting to take on a big project. Sometimes it can be downright intimidating. But for Coast Salish carver Bear Horne, carving an 18-foot totem pole on the grounds of Camosun College\u2019s Interurban campus just feels like the next, natural step in his personal journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve pretty much been carving my entire life,\u201d says Horne, who is currently carving the totem for the college\u2019s Centre for Trades Education and Innovation building. \u201cI grew up watching my dad carve; I used to walk around and pick up tools, blocks of wood, sometimes walk on top of the logs… It has been a lifelong road for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horne remembers sitting in his father\u2019s shop and watching him work, experiences that had great impact on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe used to work… sort of regular hours?\u201d Horne laughs. \u201cHe would really make his own hours, but whenever he was down there, I would want to spend my time with him. I would watch him carve for hours at a time. I would just be with him. I remember picking up whatever he was working on at the time, looking at how it was different than the last time that I picked it up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horne doesn\u2019t usually work alone, though. He says that he has a whole family who carves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is always someone there; there is always someone who helps out,\u201d he says. \u201cI have a whole family who carve. All my uncles carve, some of my cousins carve; at least one of them will come, often three or four, whoever wants to help out. But on this specific project, it\u2019s just me working on it, because it\u2019s not a traditional totem pole.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bear Horne is currently carving a totem pole for Interurban\u2019s Centre for Trades Education and Innovation building (Camosun College A\/V Services).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Horne was a student at Camosun when the idea of the totem came to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI took the Indigenous Studies program, and while I was a student, I created a couple of sculptures for the college,\u201d he says. \u201cI created the podium for the graduation ceremony, as well a memorial bench for Naut\u2019sa mawt. Around then, I became friends with [Camosun vice president of education] John Boraas. He had an idea, and had put out a call to local artists… And then I had an idea for what I envisioned for the spot where they wanted to put the piece. I put in a submission around the ideas that I had, around some of the things that I had experienced, some of the feelings that I took with me from being a student at Camosun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horne says these feelings are represented in the characters on the totem itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is really around my own experiences at Camosun,\u201d says Horne. \u201cThe heron is the largest piece that is going to be in the installation. The heron is a representation of patience and perseverance\u2014the time that it takes to change your goals while you\u2019re going to school at Camosun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horne says that the totem pole is also a representation of the instructors, and the patience and the guidance that they have learned there that they share with Camosun students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn the top part of the installation, there\u2019s a sun design,\u201d he says. \u201cThat is a representation of the strength and the energy of the good feelings that come from completing something and from the relationships that you make in school, and the energy they bring. The last piece, on the bottom, is a salmon. They represent how the salmon leaves the river, and goes out in the ocean… then comes back up the river. So that is like the renewal, the things you learn while you are in school, then you bring those out with you while you are living your life, and some of the students will come back to be instructors at the school they went to. It is all part of the renewal, part of the return of the gifts that you received, brought back with you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s always challenging and exciting to take on a big project. Sometimes it can be downright intimidating. But for Coast Salish carver Bear Horne, carving an 18-foot totem pole on the grounds of Camosun College\u2019s Interurban campus just feels like the next, natural step in his personal journey. \u201cI\u2019ve pretty much been carving my entire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-february-6-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17065,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17063\/revisions\/17065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}