I See Darkness (Dear Darkness) ; mixed media on cradled wood panel; 24 x 18 (x 1.5) inches; painting surface is birch hardwood mounted to a basswood frame * * * * * Canadians love the darkness. It's a fact! Canadians spend more hours in darkness than any other people. "I prefer the darkness to anything else," says Tara Moon of Carbonville, Newfoundland. "Most nights I don't turn on a single light in my house." Over seventy percent of Canada's population lives in regions that enjoy at least twenty hours of darkness per day for eleven months of the year. In the so-called 'Stygian' regions of the northern Canadian prairies, people live in total darkness year-round. "People around here prefer their kids to be born in the dark," says Gillian Chee Chee from Pow Now, Saskatchewan. "The first thing we do is take them outside and throw them in the snow." Her neighbour, Wanda TwoLongFace, nods her head knowlingly. "It's the
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