...it's been evening all day long...

HEIDI ANNALISE ART - I didn’t study art in school, and I took a winding path to get here, but… So I decided to leave my respectable 9-to-5 job on the East Coast in 2015 to become an artist. I wasn’t even entirely sure what I wanted to paint, but I was pretty sure that inspiration could be found in my magnificent home state of Colorado, so I moved back. All my recent paintings reflect the joy of being once again surrounded by the beauty of the mountains. Floating between realism and impressionism, my artwork adds an element of fantasy to the natural world with heightened colors and simplified shapes. By bringing glimpses of nature into our indoor environments, we can soak up these extraordinary vistas on all of our more ordinary days, and remind ourselves to go exploring whenever we can.

This “we’re no better than them” mentality makes the critical mistake that hate itself is the problem.

The reason that hate groups like the Klan have been driven so near to extinction is because of this exact thing. It became unfashionable to be publicly racist, and the backlash against those kinds of groups became unbearable for them. It drove them out of the limelight and into the very fringes of society.