His poetry are not to tell the viewers what the drawing is, but only to inform them of what he was thinking while drawing the image. He learned to write and draw at the same time, and cannot feel one without the other. He have not pursued and secondary training in art and know very little of art history other than that the Tlingit have always honored the other lives which have sustained their existence, their visual designs are the unforgotten language, the contemporary cave drawing, the petrified footprint, that tells of an experience.

His personal beliefs and the practice of Native Spirituality leads him to perceive animals as greater being than him, and that his existence is dependent upon their presence and not theirs upon him. He hopes that others with compassion and concern will share his attitude towards life, in all forms.