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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.

#FoodforThoughtCreativeQuarantine From Hera Artist Kathie Florsheim... I have been roaming around my house and studio more than usual, I'm not usually here all day for days on end. In running up and down the stairs, I felt the warmth of sunlight cross my body as I passed the windows. Such a welcome presence. I have been sitting in the light, reading, and following it as it moves throughout the day.  Chasing light for a photographer is nothing new. Doing so in a pandemic, while confined, is a whole new level of intensity and wonder, in spite of circumstances. Being able to escape into something familiar, even for a brief period of time, is ... I can’t find words for this. I made some bad pictures and a few good ones as I watched the light, an old and trusted friend, dance through my kitchen. 

 #MeetHeraartistKathieFlorsheim Tell us your artist story, some biographical info, when did you decide to be an artist? Why do you make art? Where did you study? Etc. I am not sure I decided to be an artist. The decision crept up on me when I was an undergrad, taking design, photography and sculpture classes. I thought those classes were gut courses, a respite from all the reading required of a history major. Little did I know…. Soon I was spending all my spare time in the bronze-casting studio on the heels of taking a year of design classes. By the time I graduated, I was hooked and itching to make things- not to delve farther into modern European history.  Nonetheless my undergraduate education taught me how to ask a question, and how to look for the answer. That has been essential in my studio practice. The pleasure of Making is the most exciting thing I can think of doing, in this or any other lifetime. Whenever I daydream about other professions, like ...