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By The Big Beat
And now, for your viewing pleasure, a look into the mind of Howie Tsui.
The artist — recent winner of the $5,000 emerging artist award from the Council of the Arts in Ottawa — was asked by a gallery to create works for an exhibition on the bicentennial of War of 1812, with a theme on the health-care side of battle.
Tsui was skeptical, but research taught him that battlefield surgery “was a really messy procedure,” he tells me during an interview in his Centretown home. “Since a musket (ball) isn’t aerodynamic, when it enters your body it doesn’t come clean out, like a modern bullet, it just kind of rattles around in your torso.”
And now, for your viewing pleasure, a look into the mind of Howie Tsui.
The artist — recent winner of the $5,000 emerging artist award from the Council of the Arts in Ottawa — was asked by a gallery to create works for an exhibition on the bicentennial of War of 1812, with a theme on the health-care side of battle.
Tsui was skeptical, but research taught him that battlefield surgery “was a really messy procedure,” he tells me during an interview in his Centretown home. “Since a musket (ball) isn’t aerodynamic, when it enters your body it doesn’t come clean out, like a modern bullet, it just kind of rattles around in your torso.”