In Conversation with Tait's "In a Tight Fix" At Box 13

Documentation Images

Development Process 

For the past 3 years I have been examining ways in which cultural opinions represent, shape, and affect the bear. From the research I have gathered was born a speculative narrative in which there is an alternative conclusion to extinction. Last year, I contacted the Amon Carter Museum of American Art with a research request on items in the collection involving bears. After this visit, I narrowed in on a print by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait titled The Life of a Hunter. "A Tight Fix" from 1961. I found this image compelling due both its beauty and implied violence. I was compelled to eliminate the scenery and reduce the action down to its basic components. From the images I took of this work I drew the attacking bear, the hunter in the Foreground, and the smaller hunter in the Background, and included all items that referenced hunting in Illustrator. Next, using a fusion laser, I printed these items in wood as free standing figures.
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Link to Amon Carter  https://www.cartermuseum.org/collection/life-hunter-tight-fix-1970212
Image Details: The Life of a Hunter. "A Tight Fix". Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819-1905)