On the Good Red Road, 2010

Rolande Souliere - Sydney, Australia

Variable message boards, pictorial drawings

The Good Red Road is a common phrase used by many different Native American communities and translates as "one who is walking the road of a balanced life."  Drawing on the strength and beauty of First Nations spiritual traditions and teachings, an assisted readymade, such as a variable message board, is used to communicate some aspects of First Nations cultural knowledge in a contemporary art setting. 

The pictorial and reductive images are abstract in context though have been selected on the basis that such teachings and traditions may be conducted as a social or gathering place or as a solitary situation that may occur at night. Thereby transforming the night into a mysterious phenomenon that taps into one's inner knowledge and joins the journey on The Good Red Road.

Such pictorial images relate to Great Mystery,(original source of creation). The Thunderbeings (usable energy), Shaman's death (death and rebirth), the Moon Lodge (revitalize), the Trickster (learning through opposites), Kokopelli (productive) and Vision Quest (purpose). 

Rolande Souliere is a Canadian, a member of Michipicoten First Nation and an Australian citizen. She has lived in Chicago and San Francisco before relocating to Australia ten years ago. She has a Masters of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts (SCA). In 2010 Souliere commenced a Doctorate of Visual Arts at SCA, University of Sydney.

Suitable for all ages