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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