Captured a few years back while hiking Siy’ám’ Smánit or Stawamus Chief… This is the interior or inner Chief. Siy’ám’ Smánit has always been our Go-To-Hike as the elevation is extreme from the base to summit. Enroute to one of three peaks; the Meditative-Hike awakens a liberating and peaceful aura around us… Truly Super Natural BC sacred place.
Legend has it, Siy’ám’ Smánit, as a sacred place, was a rite of passage and coming of age journey for aboriginal youth. It was a First Nations’ ritual to ascend the inner Chief to the summit and camp the night. Journeying inside the Siy’ám’ Smánit up to the summit, the magical sounds of trees and spirits reverberate all around us.
“It’s a very powerful, sacred mountain that my people have admired for many years,” says Ian Campbell, hereditary chief and elected councillor of the Squamish First Nation. Campbell talks of the legendary transformer brothers creating the Chief out of an enormous First Nations home in which all the spirit animals had gathered for a feast. “We see it in the physical realm as a mountain, but in the spirit realm it’s a longhouse,” he said, describing it as a symbol of togetherness.
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As a part of my desire to explore, capture and share the world’s stillness in sacred places and spaces… I am honoured to express this moment in time with You.
As 2021 concluded; we were pleased to continue our yearly Art-of-Donation program and contribute $300.00 (10% of artwork sales this year) to the DEWC – Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre. We have raised and donated an estimated $2,000.00+ in the past couple of years. Thank you all who acquired artworks in 2021 and in the past. We hope the pieces bring decades of silence, stillness and presence into your environments.
Original Captured: 2015
Printed: 2022
Materials: MultiTex Canvas
Limited Edition: 1 of 10
Size: 40 W x 26.5 H x 0.1 D in
Gallery: SaatchiArt.com
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