In the late 1990s, Kinngait Studios began a collaboration with Sattler’s Studio in Nova Scotia, a noted workshop specializing in stained glass windows. The celebrated Appleby Chapel window designed by Kenojuak Ashevak is among its best-known results. In addition to windows, Sattler’s also worked with artists to produce small stained-glass editions after their images. The process recalls the Kinngait print tradition, in which original drawings are translated into another medium by master printers.

The present work preserves with remarkable sensitivity the fine detail and lyric grace of Kenojuak’s draughtsmanship. Her linework is still felt throughout, delicate yet firm, but it is warmed and deepened by the stained glass itself, where colour and surface seem to hold in a jewel-like glow. The image changes with illumination. As light passes through it, the work brightens, softens, and comes alive in the eye.

The glass remains in its original wooden frame, used both for protection and suspension before a light source.