Fall 2013:  Bosque Beast, a bimonthly publication in support of animals, featured Stetson's painting Protecting Elephant on the cover.  "An artist friend of mine returned recently from a trip to Africa, where she witnessed the aftermath of an elephant massacre.  The story was so disturbing that I couldn’t shake it, so I was motivated to paint Protecting Elephant, in hopes that this kind of brutality will end.  I wrote a poem that accompanies the painting, which is now owned by the director of Sundance Film Festival.  Here is an excerpt from the poem, and a larger image of the painting."

Remover of Obstacles,

Mover of Good Things,

Latin for “Huge Arch”,

Earth’s Archangel.

Elephant.

If anyone wants to know

what elephants are like

I can tell you one true thing:

elephants are like people,

only more so.