Premier John HorganB次元官网网址檚 actions of framing and hanging a piece by a local artist in the premierB次元官网网址檚 office has boosted Wilson TutubeB次元官网网址檚 motivation to create more art.
The 21-year-old Nuu-chah-nulth artist is self taught and has a distinctive style, choosing unique marine and land-based specimens that represent one of EarthB次元官网网址檚 vulnerable and suffering ecosystems.
For the month of December a collection of TutubeB次元官网网址檚 art is on display in Island Blue art supply store at Fort and Quadra. The Oak Bay High grad is in the Victoria Native Friendship CentreB次元官网网址檚 entrepreneurial program and was part of the team of youths who painted the this summer.
Last month, on a whim, Tutube sent one of those pieces to the premierB次元官网网址檚 office. It was a sketch of a darkling beetle with a brief write-up on how the darkling beetleB次元官网网址檚 larva, the meal worm, can consume styrofoam and other plastics, and digest it into biodegradable waste and carbon dioxide. It caught HorganB次元官网网址檚 attention, and the NDP leader responded through the mail with a letter and photo thanking Tutube.
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TutubeB次元官网网址檚 art is influenced by the traditional First Nation stylings of Vancouver Island, which Tutube applies in his own way. As a regular volunteer at the Royal B.C. Museum, Tutube became enamoured with the specimens of sea and land creatures and began to sketch them.
Among his prints is a Dungeness crab drawing designed to bring light on the worldwide phenomenon of ocean dead zones, a side effect of climate change.
