A4 - Sanday, January 8, 1934 - North Shore News

Services for special constable

FUNERAL SERVICES were
held Friday in Hope for a
North Vancouver RCMP
special constable who died
New Year’s Eve.

Peter Alex, described by

Ancient Buddhist artists
created fabulous mandalas
that summed up the universe.
The Aztecs fashioned their
round sunstones. Native
North Americans constructed
medicine wheels. The Druids
erected the concentric monu-
ment at Stonehenge.

From the Emerald Table of
Hermes Trismegistus to the
cruciforms of the Greek and
Byzantine churches and the
Rose Window of Chartres
Cathedral, Westerners have
tried to express the unknown
centre of things through the
medium of the circle.

This was summed up in the
Hermetic statement: **God is
an intelligent sphere whose
centre is everywhere and
whose circumference is
nowhere.”’

In the East, the mandala
has always represented the
One Divine Whole, the centre
of the mind of God.

A West Coast artist, Lee
Robinsong (living at the in-
terface between East and
West) has managed to take
this age-old reverence for the
circle a step further than it
has ever been taken before.
He has created a new art
form, which he calls

circulism.

He had a showing at the
Queen Elizabeth Gallery
recently and it was a real
brain-bender .

those who worked with him
as an excellent policeman and
a quiet young man, was
found dead by Hope RCMP
when they responded to a call

strictly personal

by Bob Hunter

Squa red circle

This is hard to put into
words. The paintings depict a

_ 360-degree scene but in no

mere fish-eye fashion. For
one thing, you can look at the
outer edge and see the view
from the centre and at the
centre you can sée what is
seen from the outer edge.

It is a back-and-forth way
of viewing. At the same time,
we get to look at an entire set-
ting, from horizon to
horizon, sky above, land and
water below, or vice versa.
You are inside the painting in
a@ way you've never quite
been inside a painting before.

Another way of putting it
is to say that from a par-
ticular point in the painting
you can look across to
another point and see the
reverse image, something a
camera certainly can’t do.

Included in Robinsong’s
display was a pair of pain-
tings, side by side. One was
convex and the other con-
cave. In the convex painting,

the shoreline and forest all
around.
In the concave picture, the

dle, with open sky all around
and the cagie a lonely point
of life on the edge of infinity.
Very striking!

1 found myself twisting
and turning my head almost
painfully, trying to catch all

the angles that he had
brought together.
When Picasso imvented
cubism, his purpose was to
make a single object viewable
on a two-dimensional canvas
from: many angles. In the
sense that hat he has found away
to render ional
space vicwable from 360
degrees, | do believe Robin-
song has made a comparable

a building in Brandon,
Manitoba, watching the sun
go down and the moon come
up at opposite ends of the
Prairie during a storm.

He realized that there was
virtually no way to depict
such a scene in an ordinary

ting.
“*I find that the square
painting is a bit absurd in one

Robinsong lives on Cortez
island with his wife and two
kids and hopes to spend the
rest of his life there, painting
until he has depicted every
square inch — well, that’s the
wrong way of putting it — of
the beautiful surrounding
land and sea.

1 hope it all works, because
the paintiogs are
magnificent.

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ning hours of Dec. 31, 1983.

He joined the RCMP in
Vancouver in April of 198]
and was sent to force head-

quarters in Regina for train- |

ing under the native policing
program.

Upon completion of his
studies, in August 1981, he

_Wwas posted to North Van-

couver, where he has worked

ever since as a_ special

constable. :
Alex was one of two such

SPECIAL

constables who worked on
area reserves and dealt with

Native policing concerns

under a_ special RCMP

*“He was a good guy,”’ said
“one local member. “He did
quite good wo!

That view is ‘shared by
Dave Jacobs, chairman of

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the Squamish Indian Band

council, who said Alex work-

ed a lot with band youth.
Hits work, says Jacobs, was

““He- was really ap-
preciated,”’” said a subdued
Jacobs this week. ‘‘He did an
excellent, job for the police
ard for the band.

“it’s going to take some
time to find someone with his

_dedication, . his capabilities

and his sincerity.”

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