Sentences with phrase «scale whale skeletons»

Born in Fort St. John, British Columbia to a Swiss father and an Aboriginal mother from the Dane - zee tribe, Jungen is well known for projects such as the Prototype for New Understanding series (1998 - 2005), where disassembled Nike Air Jordan sneakers were reconfigured into twenty - three different simulations of Northwest Coast Aboriginal masks; and Shapeshifter (2000), one from a series of three large - scale whale skeletons constructed from white plastic lawn chairs.