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#FoodforThoughtCreativeQuarantine Artist Rebecca Siemering shares her practice during the pandemic. Within the first month of the current crisis, I was reading how it was important to document the  time we are in for historians. With being at home, conducting school at home, and working,  there has not been much time to use my hands for my art practice, much less write. As an artist  I need to keep my hands moving to feel ok or I get agitated. In times of stress, I often write  haikus to settle my mind.  Traditional haiku references nature and specifics to the season, drawing out a view of the inner  self by being reflective upon a moment. I think of the crisis of COVID19 as a temporary season  itself. I found a small notebook and set some limitations to begin writing a poem a day. I find  limitations in mediums to be freeing. You have to work against them to express your idea and  that can lead to greater creativity. In my f...
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#FoodforthoughtCreativeQuarantine Hera artist, board member and past president, Barbara Pagh shares some cellphone photo editing experiments she has been making. At one of Hera’s first Food for Thought Saturdays, Uli showed us experiments she was doing using a Photoshop app on her cell phone. We uploaded it on our own phones, but I never used it. During this quarantine, I’ve been walking the dog as much as I can in different local wooded trails and I started photographing during the walks. For Earth Day I decide to use the app and posted one result on Facebook and Instagram. It’s kind of gimmicky, but I love the different shapes and patterns that emerge, so I am trying it with more of the images. There is also something soothing about the symmetry.