HELD BY EARTH — Steph C Cosby

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HELD BY EARTH $4000, 48”x48”, oil on luon.

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1975

Based in Corvallis, OR, also providing online pelvic steam consultations.

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Vertical OR coast pics…stay to the end for baby goat snuggling and flowering currants are blooming! (West Coast native I’m just meeting 🫠)

The best thing about living where we do in OR is the free re-creation available to us. The shore pine 🌲 is so wonderful. Plantain, coastal horsetail and dune grasses 🌾〰️〰️〰️〰️The salty ocean and its powerful presence. 🌊

REPAIR , 4’x4’, oil on canvas, 2024 …my fault for posting before finished before, but many times putting a painting in the public eye shows me where I am uncomfortable with it. I usually have my rad group of loving constructive cri

✨💓ELLIOTT IS 19 appreciation post!!! 💓✨

A sweet lunch in Portland at a smash burger 🍔 place they love (Wolf’s Head PDX) then Powell’s big mystery/horror section ☠️📕 and some platform Docs. ✨

Finally, they let me share my fave selec

REPAIR, 2024, 4’x4’, oil on canvas

How to trust that repair is possible in the middle of man-made hell, in the middle of evil, violent destruction…

I tried to paint this fast enough hoping the destruction would be over by the ti

Merry Winter Holiday friends! 🫶🎄 Last week there were high winds so yesterday (on my solar return!) we gathered wind-fallen Usnea and Lobaria pulmonaria and I processed them for maceration.

Shooo the land and their offerings of medicine are incre

On this darkest night portal we move our eldest to her new apartment. The house will feel so weird without the song of ✨her being✨floating through. Luckily, we had a year with her here in our new location, so the memories are strong…and she&rs

✨🕯️👁️🕯️✨ Protection ✨🕯️👁️🕯️✨ a photo of our front door altar that changes with the seasons. This winter mistletoe, an ancient protection plant, and amanita were added.

Today at work we celebrate Santa Lucia with some cardamom and current buns

Our Sunday morning dog walk took us through a little protected mini forest in the middle of a nearby neighborhood…crushed gravel foot paths and some recycled material “board” walks…through a haven of medicine! It was ✨stunni

Forest communing always helps 🌲🍂 there are some throwback themes in this photo set!! Visit hastags to see them explored in Tennessee. Photographing with so much texture is a rad challenge, maximalism at its best. 🫠 (I know I have made a LOT of pho

Eff the system, but voted today as an act of resistance, even when I know the madness will not stop anytime soon. We’re just a moment in this movement toward something different. Before I drove to the ballot drop-off box I indulged in morning l

Not the content of this photograph, just the shapes ⏩⏩⏩⏩🚩You know, blur your eyes and read the composition of shapes and patterns to relax 🫠 Fall 🍂Fridayyyyyy🤎