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Coming to Life (With the Help of a Raven) in Vancouver, Canada
One minute, you’re happily asleep in the darkness of a giant clamshell; the next minute, an enormous bird is breaking into your bedroom and sunlight is flooding in. As Raven’s triumphant caw shreds your dreams, you emerge from your shell into the dawn of a fresh new world. Artist Bill Reid’s monumental sculpture The Raven and the First Men, which tells this Haida creation myth in a huge block of yellow cedar, evokes awe in all who see it. Even children whisper in its presence, as if not wanting to interrupt Raven at his important labor. Displayed in a special rotunda at the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology, the sculpture glows with the attribute Reid himself prized most in a work of art: “The simple quality of being well made.”
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