This print, a deceptively simple rendering of a tea kettle suspended above a qulliq in a traditional camp, functions like a Northern genre painting, like a Vermeer of the tent. It captures not action, but pause. The calm geometry of the tripod and stove gives shape to a moment of interiority: a space where stories are passed, gossip is shared, and silence itself becomes communal.

References: For further examples of the artist's drawn works, see Emily Laurent Henderson, Worlds on Paper: Drawings from Kinngait, (Vancouver: Figure 1 Publishing Inc. / Kleinburg: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2025), pgs. 116, 117, 123, 171, 210, 227, and 243.

See also the exhibition Worlds on Paper: Drawings from Kinngait, Kleinburg: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 8 March - 24 August 2025.