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  • About the Cover Artist
  • Shiva Tamara
Shiva Tamara, Get It While You Can (2019). Watercolor, acrylic, ink, marker, and pencil on canvas, 30×40 in.

My life journey has brought me around the world, from Germany to my current residence in Venice Beach, California. With the travels, there has always been a constant restriction and stereotype toward women. Throughout my career as an artist, I have always drawn women bare and in their natural form as a way of expressing feminist power and breaking free from society’s shackles of the “norm.” Not only have the travels brought experience but also heartbreak: moving from place to place and losing connections was not easy, but my art always remained constant as a place I could truly let my feelings go. [End Page 453]

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