THE RAVEN WHO STOPPED ME AP holiday ornaments The smell of wood fires

The smell of wood fires drift from cabin chimneys and the promise of purposeful days uncluttered by busy city life

Image size: 23 7/8" x 9 1/2"

24" x 16" photo by Ole Gundersen

Artist's narrative: In the early 1930s a favorite niece traveled by Canadian steamship from Ketchikan to Vancouver

THE RAVEN WHO STOPPED ME AP holiday ornaments The smell of wood firesArtist proof (AP 46 50 by Alaskan artist, Ann Miletich Image size: 21 1 4" x 9 7 8" Artist statement: Living in Alaska has opened me up for a visual world where large shapes intermingle with shining streaks of brilliant color. Especially in Alaska, it is disrespectful to try to record a landscape image, so in my work I try to capture the feeling of the place not the place itself. I'm fascinated by the use of line, color, and graphic hard line