Rick Rivet’s artistic practice and influences draw from many sources, ranging from his own Métis heritage, to shamanism, to various Euro-American artists and Indigenous art movements. Indeed, there is a wealth of different messages and imagery in Rivet’s work. A frequent and repeated theme is journeying, be it Rivet’s own voyage through life, a spiritual passage, or even dreams, with the boat form as a regularly represented vehicle. Journey #1 catches the viewer’s attention with its central, masked figure holding centre stage on a boat that spans the width of the canvas. The voyager is flanked by two paddles, then by large mauve polar direction markers (+ and -). With a blend of abstraction and representation, the boat floats through an erratic world, parading its rider through re-interpretations of text and symbols of various Indigenous peoples.