$2,300.00
Echachis - Consignment #3/100
Artist: Roy Henry Vickers
Medium: Serigraph
Image Size: 19" x 12"
- Story
When you look southwest from Tonquin Beach in Tofino, you see what appears to be one island, most people recognize as Wickaninnish. There is a narrow passage at high tide that separates Wickaninnish from Echachis Island. I’ve visited that place with my friend and carver Joe Martin.
One day as I watched the sunset colors over Echachis and listened to a raven talking, I was reminded of the Clayoquot people who were whalers in the old days.
Echachis means “rising” in the language of the locals. It was a place of waiting for whales, as well as a place to bring the whales to the beach to be divided among the people.
I love this place on the wild west coast and the many stories of people who live here and who have lived here.
Story
When you look southwest from Tonquin Beach in Tofino, you see what appears to be one island, most people recognize as Wickaninnish. There is a narrow passage at high tide that separates Wickaninnish from Echachis Island. I’ve visited that place with my friend and carver Joe Martin.
One day as I watched the sunset colors over Echachis and listened to a raven talking, I was reminded of the Clayoquot people who were whalers in the old days.
Echachis means “rising” in the language of the locals. It was a place of waiting for whales, as well as a place to bring the whales to the beach to be divided among the people.
I love this place on the wild west coast and the many stories of people who live here and who have lived here.