Alese Louise Machendagoos  

"When you feel artistic,express yourself"

   


Alese Louise Machendagoos was born during the summer of 1977, in a remote community situated in Northwestern Ontario, and raised in Thunder Bay. Adopted at birth into an aboriginal family of seven older brothers, she grew up the only sister but still retaining her aboriginal heritage and identity. Moving to Winnipeg in the mid 1980's, it was at R.B. Russell High where she learned to express her artistic abilities in the form of traditional dreamcatchers.


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Dreamcatchers represent spiritual protection and security. It is a complicated process that this artist uses to achieve her own unique style. Various colored beads; carved of animal bone and pigmented with all natural dyes and color schemes. The natural use of raw hide webbed around a tamarack sapling that is cut and tied at both ends to make it circular in appearance. A variety of feathers, all collected in the wild and prepared by the artist herself. "The materials must be collected in their natural state in order to have any spiritual value."


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Dreamcatchers are said to possess the ability to filter dreams through their woven web when placed in proximity of the sleeper. Only dreams that are good and pure are passed through this web, the spirits that inhabit the corrupted visions are repelled, and the dreams themselves are retained in the tips of the feathers. At first light their essence is burned off until nothing remains.

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The variety and picturesque beauty of this type of display art adds to the appeal of each piece. It is recommended that everyone, children especially, should have at least one to guard against those terrifying nightmares. For they seem to lurk around every corner in the deep spiritual world we all must enter the moment we close our eyes.


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