Kate MacGarry Gallery Private view, 5th April. “Ecological artists are the Shamans of our time.” How far is Coates appropriating the rituals of Inuit people when he becomes ( or acts) as a shaman in a UK council estate. Is it appropriate to appropriate if it is a useful method for citizens to problem solve their communities problems?

The shadows were meant to represent the image of the extinct animal. Like the images created by shadow puppets. In the gallery setting the shadows did not work. Coates said this showed the non presence of the animal on Earth.