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Cosmos (mixed media on panel, 12x12) by Rand Kramer
the great ones warn that everything dies, dims, becomes what it never was but you and i must become what is left when stars die pull the night in all around us and stick it under our jackets draw our own blackened constellations our own shadowed creations thread the moonlight through a needle and piece together all the remnants of night we can find we may have borrowed our light from the stars but the darkness is ours to keep.
RAND KRAMER was born in Maryland, where he earned a BA at The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He spent many years in Northern Virginia before moving to Asheville, NC, in 2017, where he lives and works in his studio in the River Arts District. After a thirty-year career in digital design, he redirected his creativity to fine art. His work is located in public and private collections throughout the Washington, DC, metro area, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and California. He is represented by Citron Gallery in Asheville.
