A winter highway-kill moose carcass, no doubt hit by a car or truck during a long winter night, and found newly uncovered, the snowbank melted. On this stretch of highway in northern British Columbia or Yukon Territory, there were at least a dozen such carcasses. At this one, the artist set up his camp stool and got to work. The eye sockets had been picked clean and flies buzzed in and out of the big nose and mouth. Moose hairs scattered the cold ground, blowing about in there wind. A beer can, bleached in the sun, lay alongside the carcass, and the artist considered whether or not to include that. It seemed a desecration. But the abandonment of such a mighty animal was, also, a desecration. So the man-made litter was appropriate to the idea of the painting: they were both "roadside trash in a throw-away society."