> Introduction to Patrick Mahon's Drawings

The suite “Boneskidoo” is a series of small drawings in pencil and ballpoint pen that depict images based on caribou and seal bones found on the land in Nunavut alongside pictorial references to snow machines -- and to some of the logos found on the surfaces of those machines. In this work there is an obvious attempt to link images of the remains of dead animal bodies with the detritus from spent modern transportation technology. At the same time, the use of a graphic design sensibility which incorporates logotypes situates these hybrid representations in a context that could invoke the always present mechanisms of global capitalism.