Juxtaposing a classic rock standard – Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven – and a popular tourist attraction – Long Beach, British Columbia – Kevin Schmidt reclaims these elements of popular culture, in an attempt to compensate them for what they have lost through their commodification. Schmidt – an amateur guitarist as well as an artist – learned the legendary song specifically to construct this work. By bringing his music performance of a “mythic” rock ballad into the “pristine” West Coast landscape, he comments on the relationship between nature and culture, and the ways in which we consume both.