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 title: Hope Black
 id: hope-black
 bio:
-  - Hope Black is a conceptual portrait photographer and multi-media artist based on Vashon Island, WA. Her work blends fine-art portraiture with macabre photo editing, and she draws on mixed-media illustrations, varied textures, and found-objects to create portraits and paintings that feel symbolic and dream-like. Her images echo the archetypes found in the tarot and the emotional undercurrents of womanhood -- inviting viewers into a world that is both haunting and deeply human.
+  - "I turn trash into treasured art. My intention is simple: the remind us that we are not only part of the earth, we *are* the earth. My hope is that this connection inspires loving stewardship and community."
 img:
   src: hope-black.jpg
   alt:
-    - 3 picture collage of a white brunette woman. in picture one, she sits on a tall stool with her leg pulled up, holding paintbrushes. in picture 2 she stares at the camera with chanterelles held up to her ears. picture 3, she aims a camera at the camera.
+    - Hope Black, long wavy hair, sitting on a stool barefoot, smiling at the camera, with paint brushes and a roller in one hand. One knee up, in a pose of nonchalance but with a welcoming air. I love you!
+    - A photograph taken by Hope Black on the Kansas Prairies. A herd of American Bison as seen through a barbed wire fence. One of the herd turned around and looked at the camera. The feeling of the image I macabre, with a sepia tone and made to look antique and shabby. Meant to evoke a sense of nostalgia and also sadness at the history of these lands and animals in the Americas.
+    - part of a larger painting by Hope Black. Medium is rusty trash, acrylic paint, latex paint and toner transfer method on wood. Sign reads The earth is what we all have in common. quote by Wendell Berry
 contacts:
-  - href: https://hopeblack.photo
+  - href: https://www.hopeblack.photo
     title: hopeblack.photo
+  - href: https://www.instagram.com/hopeblackart
+    title: hopeblackart on instagram
 tags:
-  - 2025 solstice
+  - 2026 beltane
-  - 2026 imbolc
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+---
+title: Hope Black
+id: hope-black
+bio:
+  - Hope Black is a conceptual portrait photographer and multi-media artist based on Vashon Island, WA. Her work blends fine-art portraiture with macabre photo editing, and she draws on mixed-media illustrations, varied textures, and found-objects to create portraits and paintings that feel symbolic and dream-like. Her images echo the archetypes found in the tarot and the emotional undercurrents of womanhood -- inviting viewers into a world that is both haunting and deeply human.
+img:
+  src: prev/hope-black.jpg
+  alt:
+    - 3 picture collage of a white brunette woman. in picture one, she sits on a tall stool with her leg pulled up, holding paintbrushes. in picture 2 she stares at the camera with chanterelles held up to her ears. picture 3, she aims a camera at the camera.
+contacts:
+  - href: https://hopeblack.photo
+    title: hopeblack.photo
+tags:
+  - 2025 solstice
+  - 2026 imbolc
+---