One of the most recognizable figures from traditional Inuit stories, Talluliyuk or Taleelayo as she is called on the southern Baffin Island, or Sedna as she is called in the south, is the Inuit sea goddess. In various tellings of the story, when angered, Sedna’s hair becomes wild and unkempt, ensnaring the sea mammals in its tangle and withholding them from hunters.

In "Talillajuuqpaujaaluk (Great Big Sedna)" an expanse of unruly hair, coloured with a remarkably gentle tonality of the lithographed inks, coil around the goddess’s well-shaped, voluptuous half-fish figure. The tail of the sea goddess writhes in c shape, gorgeously coloured with a subtle scale of greens and blues that seem to scintillate in the composition.