Lifeboat is an archetype, a cross-cultural universal symbol of human-powered water transport, a beacon boat, a vivid vessel, a cargo kayak, a star ship, a proverbial ark, a cedar dream…Brackett’s canoe, a Salish skiff, a Nordic clinker, a Chippewa raft, a Polynesian pontoon, a Swahili mtumbwi, an Uro totora, a Neolithic dugout…an intricately-patterned sculptural form…a brilliant torso, a floating totem…a stylus, quill, pen, brush, scribe…flickering, flying, floating, rowing, writing, drawing…