Leading Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016) rose to prominence in the early 2000s with her drawings of everyday life in the contemporary Arctic. In Cape Dorset Freezer, Pootoogook’s bold undertaking to use reflections in plate glass to show the activity in her town’s co-op store pushed her drawing skills to new heights. The glass doors delicately reveal the reflections of the shoppers and children admiring the contents, demonstrating Pootoogook’s mastery of coloured pencil. One shopper wears an amauti, a parka with a large hood in which mothers carry their babies, and, behind her, another is pushing a grocery cart. A man holding a shopping basket looks intently through the glass at offerings that include Hungry-Man dinners, frozen vegetables, and other packaged products. The scene subtly reveals the collision of tradition and modern convenience that typifies communities across the North, and it cleverly plays on the oddity of bringing frozen goods up to the Arctic.