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For Immediate Release: Foraged Food Will Overcome

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For Immediate Release: Foraged Food Will Overcome

[...]WE SHALL OVERCOME EXHIBITION. Wednesday February 5, 2020, Woburn, Massachusetts.

Five food illustrations from Artist Patricia Jacques’ watercolor collection on foraging, “Wild Dining,” have been selected for a “Les Femmes Folles” online exhibition series. This collection of luminous watercolors, which represents resilience and practical self-care, was chosen in response to a LFF’s prompt, “We Shall Overcome...”

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Raw Pawpaw 1-2-3 Steps Sketch Preview

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Raw Pawpaw 1-2-3 Steps Sketch Preview

Mango and papaya drenched in lime juice with a strong dash of ginger? Heaven in my mouth, baby. Pawpaw, a native American fruit, has a custardy texture and taste not unlike banana, I'm told. Could this fruit be the great substitute contender to exotic mangos and papayas?...

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100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Weeds & Wildflowers Salad Recipe

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100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Weeds & Wildflowers Salad Recipe

[...] One requirement was that the resulting work had to either inform or visually explain an issue to a larger audience. As an organic, slow food and fresh food advocate, the concept for the "Wild Dining Illustrated" series crystallized after a few days of introspection focused...

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Painting Dragons: A Journey Back to Creativity - Part Three

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Painting Dragons: A Journey Back to Creativity - Part Three

[...] Parts of it still lives in the abstract world in my mind's eye. I can almost see its fragile tendrils gently reaching for me. This dragon wants to desperately be born. The only feeling I could related it to at the time was that of an echo of a distant dream, one that's right on the verge of being fully remembered, in full detail, all at once....

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Painting Dragons: A Journey Back to Creativity - Part Deux

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Painting Dragons: A Journey Back to Creativity - Part Deux

[...] The crows feet at the corner of his eyes deepened. To my chagrin, he was now grinning from ear to ear. Either he was ecstatic at returning back home, or he’d actually just read my mind. Well. At the very least he had a sense of humor...

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