For this painting, I used the influence of the Inuit mask and traditional designs within the abstraction such as  whales and fish. Inuit are a marine people, dependent on the Arctic Ocean for transportation and its marine resources for food security. This connection to land and ice gives Inuit a great sense of pride and community well-being which is now threatened. The ocean in this painting surrounds the central Inuit traditions, capturing bubbles of visual reality to the crisis within our planet’s oceans.