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This is the talk given at the opening Reception for Lost in the Lavender – Friday, September 9, 2022 at 6pm. Read the full Artist Talk below. Video and photos by Claire Rosen. To speak about this work I feel I must take you back in time, just a few years, to the moment when […]

Lost in the Lavender – Artist Talk

We walked off the airplane at about 9:50am Greece time after an 9 hour red eye. I should have been exhausted but I was pumped. I was in the place I had dreamed of since I was a little girl. We made our way to baggage claim, through customs, to the Sky Express line and […]

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