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Cedar Tree

Tags: Color, Corporate Office, Figurative, Foliage, Hand Painted, Manipulated, Mixed Media, People

About the artist

In the dark days of strict self-quarantining, I felt a profound loss to my photographic portrait practice, in addition, a general malaise and sense of isolation. With the mandate to wear masks, I considered not only the loss of identity with faces obscured by swaths of fabric, but the loss of connectivity with friends and … continue reading

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