It’s the imagination of the shape that I like. It does not look just like the real thing. If it looked like a real person, you would simply see a copy of what is alive.

—Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, interviewed by Ingo Hessel, 1989

Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok was fond of telling the story of how her works were inspired by her grandfather’s drawings of faces in the sand, and on the surface of it one can see those drawings echoed in her work. Peering and craning from the shard-like piece of stone, this Family Group emerges from the stone as if it had always been there. Though modest in scale, this carving still possesses some of the monumentality that is intrinsic to Tasseor’s works, large and small; the family as an eternal, immutable entity, is bound together in this sculpture.

References: See the section on Lucy Tasseor in Norman Zepp, Pure Vision: The Keewatin Spirit, (Regina: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 1986), pp. 86-95; for similar works see Faces Emerging from Stone (cat. 39), and Head Cluster (cat. 40). See also Feheley Fine Arts, Lucy Tasseor: I Turn to Stone, (Toronto: Feheley Fine Arts, 2015), solo exhibition catalogue with an essay by Ingo Hessel.