I started this painting and titled it a few years ago, when we lived in Winnipeg, with lots of snow and cold. I found the line "A neighbour's light across the snow" in an old 1950s book called « My Kitchen Window » by Edna Jaques. It inspired me to hang sheer curtains in my family’s windows and to turn our porch lights on at night for the people walking home from the bus. Sometimes - people just want to know that others are around.

I finished this piece on the fifth day of April, 2020. It took me years to put the house in. In my mind, I had always seen it there in the dark. I never would have dreamed the context the completed piece would exist in as the world grappled with isolation from COVID-19.