Sleeping in the Forest mixx projects 43"W 30"H x 15

43"W 30"H x 15

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They represent my inner landscape and engagement with various forms of existence that I feel connected to

Brenda Bogart's gestural portraits of these stars of yesteryear get a punch of fresh energy from her pop art brights that temper their dramatic façades

In a fitting tribute to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo

Sleeping in the Forest mixx projects 43"W 30"H x 15Inspired by Mary Oliver's beloved poem, this captures that dreamy space between sleep and wakefulness where you're everything and nothing at once. I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the