"It's a Good Land"

That's what Miss Vee's husband "Brown Boy" Pacheco said to me, gazing at this view he'd known all his life. This is the view I awoke to, and that I raised my eyes from while carving. It's hard now to live without that mountain.

Mr. Pacheco is a dedicated and intelligent farmer who raised four teachers. He made sure that his children could appreciate their home, yet know the world outside as well. Carving with this view in front of me day after day, I decided to name the artwork in honour of him.