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Submission Friday:

Heather Lee Birdsong, Untitled (Forest Park), 2017, 10 x 7 inches, gouache on hot press paper.

This was the first in a series of small works depicting the private experience of emotion in public space. Forest Park, a famed wilderness area within the city of Portland, Oregon, serves as a shared backyard. Traversing its many miles of trails is to simultaneously experience the private and the public: a place where urban dwellers go to commune with nature, but where one is never really far from anyone, even if one can’t see or hear them through the dense trees, shrubs and flowers.