“Inspired by a big sky over the Georgian Bay— and the underlying concept of the metaphor of being an island in a surrounding storm.” — Chris James Cooper Nearly the entire canvas is sky — sweeping layers of cloud building above the Georgian Bay, a thin strip of warm granite at the bottom, one small island holding its place at the horizon. Chris chose an unusually tall, narrow format to give that sky exactly the room it demands. The island is a metaphor. The storm is real. The instruction in the title — Be — is the whole point.