“The Athabasca River, as a major River system, starts in the mountains, at Jasper (my native ancestors lived there). The River is influenced by different terrain, forests, prairie, low lands, running north to Athabasca Lake in northern Alberta. It was used as a trade route and by the Native people. I hoped to express this with the drop of water, mountains, forest, river and feathers. Athabasca is an anglicized Cree word meaning ‘grass or reeds here and there’.”