Footprints(Lewis and Clark Series)
mixed media, 2001, 19" x 23"
Corwin Clairmont (Salish-Kootenai) MFA, Montana State University, Bozeman, 1971. Collections: Beall Park Art Center (Bozeman, MT), Hockaday Museum of Art (Kalispell, MT), Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Eiteljorg Museum (Indianapolis, IN). Several group and solo exhibits throughout the US and at the Westphalian State Museum of Natural History in Münster, Germany
Corwin Clairmont's Footprints (Lewis and Clark Series) deals with the environmental impact of the settlement of the frontier traversed by Lewis and Clark. In this monoprint/ collage series, footprints of wild animals symbolize the endangerment of these species through pollution and the extension of highways represented by a collage of photographs taken on the Flathead Reservation. Lewis and Clark themselves appear overwhelmed by this ecological chaos.