David Moses Bridges works in a new woodworking space at Leddy-Houser wood shop in South Portland while he receives cancer treatment in the Portland area. Whitney Hayward/Staff Photographer

David Moses Bridges works on a model of a birch canoe at Leddy-Houser wood shop in South Portland. Whitney Hayward/Staff Photographer

David Moses Bridges works in South Portland. Whitney Hayward/Staff Photographer

David Moses Bridges works on a canoe. Whitney Hayward/Staff Photographer

David Moses Bridges works in South Portland. Whitney Hayward/Staff Photographer

David Moses Bridges works in a new woodworking space at Leddy-Houser wood shop in South Portland . Whitney Hayward/Staff Photographer

David Moses Bridges works in a new woodworking space on a model of a birch canoe at Leddy-Houser wood shop in South Portland. Whitney Hayward/Staff Photographer

David Moses Bridges' work, including this canoe at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, is in museums across Maine and around the country.

The Abbe museum's canoe is launched on Echo Lake.