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Healing Art

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for the Planet

underpinning of stewardship resonates, incor-
porating humans into these networks in order 
to preserve them. 
Susan Hoffman Fishman’s In The Beginning 
There Was Only Water II visually communicates 
the vastness of the Earth’s beginnings while it 
draws on the origin stories of Genesis and the 
concept of dominion. This panel is part of a larg-
er installation that is an abstract interpretation 
of what scientists have determined happened at 
the creation of the planet and for the billions of 
years that followed. Fishman is asking the viewer 
to consider our relationship with Creation to 
formulate a healthier connection between us and 
the planet. 
Nancy Cohen’s Between addresses the worsen-
ing condition of the flood plains in her home area 
of New York and New Jersey. Her use of hand-
made paper, then drawing with pulp and ink, 

CLOCKWISE: Susan 
Fishman Hoffman’s In 
the Beginning There 
Was Only Water II, 
acrylic and mixed media 
work on paper, 5 by 5 
feet. Tracey Easthope’s 
The Solar Cell is part of 
a larger series titled The 
Climate Orders and the 
Couture Parade, featur-
ing eight different digital 
costume images. Leslie 
Sobel’s Interwoven 
Ecologies, mixed media, 
stitched, glued mono-
type and digital print, 31 
by 47 inches.

FACING PAGE: Nancy 
Cohen’s Between, paper 
pulp, ink, kozo and 
handmade paper, 21 by 
60 inches.

JENNIFER PATSELAS

JENNIFER PATSELAS

TRACEY EASTHOPE

