i do a lot of my daily looking at art on instagram and in doing so came across the work of victoria ford. she doesn't have a website, doesn't have images splashed across the net but does have an instagram page via which you can access her etsy shop. i'm not a stranger to linocut but this is breathtaking stuff, despite my normal aversion to representational art, and the care and love that's gone into them, for me, radiates out of all the images.
as, at last, some of the looted stuff we have in out museums, makes its way back to where it came from (a ppost for another day) i wonder again why it is we'd rather look at the work of dead artists, hoarded by those with more money than we can imagine, than look at the work of people actually working today.
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