Jobie Uqaituk (Ohaituk)

“Sometimes when you look at a piece of stone, it already has a shape. When you look at it from the outside you can see that it’s going to be this or that. You start to chisel away, carving your idea from the beginning because you’ve got the idea of what to make and it takes form and meaning. It’s not hard to do then, to give it meaning … it’s gratifying. I try to make my carvings come alive.”

Quote from Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 3 Fall 1998