Cover Art
I was blessed when Forest Rogers gave me permission to use “The Venetian Harpy” sculpture image for the cover. The image is both mysterious and thought-provoking, inviting a story unto itself. The following words were taken from Ms. Rogers's Spectrum 22 Award entry.
Forest Rogers — “The Venetian Harpy” — Spectrum 22 Dimensional Gold Award Winner
“In pre-history I studied costume design at Carnegie Mellon University, receiving an MFA. Realizing I really wanted to make the actions—the characters and beings themselves—rather than their garments, I began to focus on illustration and sculpture. I was fortunate to work with paleontologists at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh to create its model-toy line. The project, enduring more than 25 years, gave me grounding in anatomy and a sense of how living creatures work. Workshops from the wonderful Anatomy.Tools.com opened more doors, internal and external. Add to the mix an astonishing artist-mother, Lou P. Rogers, and my grandparents' magic bookcase full of Kay Nielsen, Arthur Rackham, and others, and it explains a bundle about me and my work.”
Forest Rogers also won the Spectrum 23 Dimensional Gold Award for “The Morrigan.” For more of her work, visit ForestRogers.com, or contact her at forestrogers@gmail.com.