issue 8
// art
Title: Methuselah // Artist: J.V. Foerster
about the piece
| A few years back I lived on Mt Hood in Oregon. At the time I retreated to the forest and the mountain to grieve and heal from the death of my partner. It was a magical place to live. Each day a new creature would arrive and seemed unafraid of me. Then one day a large plump raven arrived. He strutted around on the deck like he owned it. Then he came everyday for weeks. One day I took out my camera and shot this photo of him. Later that day I sat on the deck only a few feet away from him and we ate walnuts together. This was my healing, in those moments me chatting about my sorrow to this ancient looking raven and he waddling around me on the deck like a visitor from a higher realm dancing my sorrow away. |
about the artist // J.V. Foerster
| J.V. Foerster is a painter, poet and photographer from Portland, Oregon. She paints both abstract and impressionist pieces using acrylic and watercolor paints. J.V.’s work (paintings and photos) were included in two gallery shows at Milepost 5 in Portland, Oregon. Her paintings were in the 14th Botanicals Art Exhibition in Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery. Recently she had a painting titled “12 Voices” on exhibit at The Oregon Art Center and will have two more forthcoming in that gallery in December. She was the featured artist in The Field Guide Poetry Magazine. Her poems, photos and paintings were included. Two of her paintings were published in the Outsider Art Magazine as well as a photo in Elohi Gaduji Magazine. Currently she has three paintings in a show at Artistic Portland Gallery featuring art about Mt Hood. She also has forthcoming one of her paintings called The Bloom on the cover of Carol Louise Munn’s book “Spirits or Gnats”. |
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