I am so proud to have been accepted to the Four Freedoms project from Still Point Arts. The project is a reinterpretation of Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms paintings.

I am stunned to learn that my painting For Sale made the cover, as the publication contains the work of over 50 talented artists and writers from all over the US, as well as from Canada, Israel, Australia, and Hong Kong. The issue features photography, paintings, collages, fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction that present a stark picture of where the United States stands on issues of freedom at this time in our history—the year 2018, almost 250 years after our country’s founding. Thank you to Still Point Arts for this profound work.

I’m lucky to live in a city with abundant natural resources. Threaded with water reflecting green places and jutting mountains, Seattle has no shortage of wildlife living within reach of traffic jams and towers of steel and glass.

I was driving over one of the floating bridges and found inspiration from a blue heron wading for lunch. Nature is astonishingly resilient and adaptive.

This new series serves to remind us of the fragile beauty in the most unlikely of places and our responsibility to respect and preserve.