At a Cellular Level
I've become interested in communicating how all inhabitants on the planet share similarities at the cellular level. We all need air, sun, food, and water. Calling attention to the cellular commonality of all beings may soften our first response when we interact with other humans or species and help us to avoid scanning for the differences and the hierarchies we place mentally on everything
outside of ourselves.
I've become interested in communicating how all inhabitants on the planet share similarities at the cellular level. We all need air, sun, food, and water. Calling attention to the cellular commonality of all beings may soften our first response when we interact with other humans or species and help us to avoid scanning for the differences and the hierarchies we place mentally on everything
outside of ourselves.
OIL PASTEL ON VELOUR
A Murder of....The Last Thing Virgil Saw
In November of 2016
Tokio, North Dakota resident and local artist Virgil Feather went missing after being released from the Lake Region Law Enforcement Center.Feather was incarcerated for failing to make payments on a DUI charge from 2008. He was an inmate at the LEC (Lake Region Law Enforcement Center, Devils Lake, ND) for six days from Nov. 9 to Nov. 15 at 4:33 p.m., according to jail records.
Shortly after his release, Feather disappeared.
Authorities reportedly dropped Feather off at the county line somewhere near the Hwy. 20 bridge after he was released.
About two weeks after Feather’s release, with no word as to his whereabouts, Fort Totten police sent a missing persons report to several media outlets, including the Journal. Whether or not they conducted an investigation into his disappearance is unknown.
What is known is that on March 29,2017 Feather was found dead.
Details surrounding Feather’s death are currently scarce.
Feather was known around the community and beyond as a talented artist, and his pieces have been displayed at the Lake Region Heritage Center and the Pioneer Daughters Museum at Fort Totten, among many other venues. Several of his works are also for sale at the antique mall on 6th St. in Devils Lake.
Feather was 65 years old at the time of his death.
Tokio, North Dakota resident and local artist Virgil Feather went missing after being released from the Lake Region Law Enforcement Center.Feather was incarcerated for failing to make payments on a DUI charge from 2008. He was an inmate at the LEC (Lake Region Law Enforcement Center, Devils Lake, ND) for six days from Nov. 9 to Nov. 15 at 4:33 p.m., according to jail records.
Shortly after his release, Feather disappeared.
Authorities reportedly dropped Feather off at the county line somewhere near the Hwy. 20 bridge after he was released.
About two weeks after Feather’s release, with no word as to his whereabouts, Fort Totten police sent a missing persons report to several media outlets, including the Journal. Whether or not they conducted an investigation into his disappearance is unknown.
What is known is that on March 29,2017 Feather was found dead.
Details surrounding Feather’s death are currently scarce.
Feather was known around the community and beyond as a talented artist, and his pieces have been displayed at the Lake Region Heritage Center and the Pioneer Daughters Museum at Fort Totten, among many other venues. Several of his works are also for sale at the antique mall on 6th St. in Devils Lake.
Feather was 65 years old at the time of his death.
ATTESTED
This series responds to fictional and factual roles ascribed as female in past and present times.
Best of Show Award- 2018 North Dakota Human Rights Art Show
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CURTAINS
The Curtains series responds to the remnants that are left from the passing of time. The crisp almost new curtains testify to the hope and work the former inhabitants applied to these scenes. The storms represent the challenges we experience in life.
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RUST SERIES - 2015
Created using metal on canvas.
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The Long Journey Triptych responds to any new situation humans undertake to achieve a goal. The scene is meant to evoke the feeling of the heat from the sun on a desolate almost desert looking landscape where you can imagine going over hills and vast expanses in pursuit of “arriving”.
The Uphill Battles series responds to events we face every day in living an ordinary life. The viewer can decide if they are the sun rising to challenge the landscape or the landscape responding to a powerful force; but ultimately the realization is that all things that we encounter become a part of who we are.
