Balance Rock, a glacial erradic deposited in this position on a sale beach
just north of Skidegate mission, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) has
bore witness to 10,000 years of pounding waves from Hecate Strait.
Here daylights thunderbird moon watches the superimposed figures of eagle
(on the right), the two clans of the Haida nation, where the human infant
form in the pivot point of the balanced rock. Haida culture's hereditary
moiety is matrilineal, Raven must wed Eagle and marriage between clans was
forbidden.
In this, the first silkscreen printed by April's workshop "Wind Spirit
Printmakers", the balance of art and the elements symbolise April's
culture and life as an artist and geologist.
