Artist's notes

Sculpin and thunderbird shield on figured maple.

Design by Fred Anderson.

The Thunderbird is the most powerful of all supernatural animals in the Heilsuk culture, a great chief transformed. I believe the more beautiful the bird is, the better I can become. It is a manifestation of the spirit. This work was named "In Motion" because the creator says "if you don't move, I don't move". We cannot live life just waiting and wishing for things to happen. We need to put our lives in to motion.