Ochre Pit Road

Ochre Pit Road, o/p. 24" x 24", $3,000.00, Steven Rhude

“Like most of us, I assume that there is a real world out there—but that our
representations of that world are constructions. People create and apply these
constructions in a struggle to grasp the world, relate to it, and manipulate
it through concepts, knowledge, and acts. In the process, reality impinges;
and the events that occur consequently are not predicated on the cultural
system of representations employed by the people, although they may largely
be interpretable within it. A people’s way of life is thus not a closed system,
contained within their own cultural constructions. That part of the real
world on which we as anthropologists need to focus is composed of this wid-
est compass: a natural world, a human population with all its collective and
statistical social features, and a set of cultural ideas in terms of which these
people try to understand and cope with themselves and their habitat.”

- Karel Barth


Steven Rhude, Wolfville, NS