Taboujamteque/Tabousintac
Two entries
Artists
Béatrice Savoie-Mecking
John McBain Crow
Tabusintac
The missionaries wrote Taboujamteque.
Which means: Two entries.
Others talk about the war of two chiefs.
Tabusintac at the edge of the lagoon, of the river, of the ocean.
Acadian population from the beginning.
Then the British Empire favours its colonists.
Tabusintac between two francophone villages.
Bordered by Néguac and Brantville not far from Rivière-du-Portage.
Today Acadians are coming back.
Magnificent golf course.
Delicious lobsters.
Gliding ospreys .
A dream marina .
Tabusintac, a place where the moon is the wife of the sun and the mother of the human race.
A place where she protects the pregnant woman.
And distributes the nourishing milk.
Tabusintac : Littered with trees standing like the Wise Men at the pursuit of the star.
Green and white sentinel draped in the magic and the mist.
Van Gogh would dive into the light of this surrealist land.
With Raymond Breau’s song: Tabusintac.
Béatrice Savoie-Mecking
Tabusintac, N.B.
Originally from Fair-Isle, in the Acadian Peninsula, Béatrice Savoie Mecking has been living in Tabusintac, New Brunswick for over 20 years. A self-taught painter, she has a background in dramatic arts and has taken courses with painter Jean Patenaude.
Her major accomplishments include the canvas work Strangeness, which was praised by art critic John K. Grande in Vie des Arts magazine.
The work she created for the exhibition Irreducibles racines was inspired by the Mi'kmaq origin of the name "Tabusintac".
For the realization of her work, the artist proposed to go back to the sources of history, focusing on a time when Tabusintac dug its cradle in the middle of two streams in the heart of an infinitely generous nature and that, on its shores, the traditions kept all their meaning in harmony with the tamed environment.
The work also reflects the intimate relationship that the artist has with Tabusintac's landscape, while from her home she can contemplate the river in all its splendour.
John McBain Crow
First Nation
Eel River Bar, N.B.
John McBain is a First Nations artist from Eel River Bar. His work is circulating in many First Nations communities and at the National Museum of Man in Ottawa, as well as in the United States.
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His work is made of moose skin and cedar wood.
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Within the framework of the exhibition Irréductibles racines, the artist is associated with the name "Tabusintac".