My brother is a NW transplant living in Minnesota. He and his wife asked me to design a piece of art to hang on their blank living room wall. The logistics of carting something so huge half-way across the country, however, prompted me to think outside the box. Or perhaps inside the box. Instead of something to hang on the wall, why not decorate the wall itself? They wanted something to remind them of the Pacific Northwest, and so I turned to the NW creation legend of Raven stealing the sun and releasing it into the sky. While I am not a native artist, I cannot escape the influence of the spirits that surround me.