Artist Statement: This piece was inspired by a trip I took with my mother and father last fall. My father was hunting caribou, and I was struck by the intense beauty of the Alaskan landscape and the intense connection with the land that is forged through first-hand experience of it. With the ever shortening days of the fall season, the sun hovers just over the horizon and illuminates the expansive and uniquely Alaskan wild spaces in new and glorious ways.