Maureen Gruben, Leading the Way Home, 2025 - 6, Goose wing quills, white painted plywood panels, drilled grid system, 243.8 x 243.8 x 121.9 cm. Installation view at Qillaniq at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. © Maureen Gruben. Photo: Kyra Koroski
Leading the Way Home was created with over a thousand wings from geese harvested by Inuvialuit hunters. Tuktoyaktuk community members helped clean and strip the feathers down to quills. The circular arrangement of these minimal stems suggests collective migration, cycles of departure and return to the Arctic tundra where life begins.