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![brightly colored beautiful food art showing beet root vegetables and greens, artwork by Gwenn Seemel](/images/2022/2022Beets.jpg)
Bleeding Heart of the Earth
2022
acrylic, marker, and colored pencil on paper
12 x 6 inches
At the beginning of COVID, my first-ever food art rebooted my creativity as I struggled to process all the suffering the pandemic would engender. Two years later, these beets marked another COVID moment for me: my move to Lambertville, New Jersey, where—unlike on Long Beach Island—it’s understood that we can help protect each other from the virus.