Our cover art for Issue 35.1 comes to us by way of Krista Drummond, who lives and works in Columbus, OH. Of her paintings, she states, “The first winter without my father was the winter of 2007. My parents split up when I was in grade school, but were married for twenty-eight years, and my mother was just as depressed as her five children because of the loss. It was the end of my first semester at art school and I realized that I didn’t have money to buy Christmas gifts, so I decided that I would paint everyone something. I painted my mother a hummingbird, they have always been her favorite, and it was something that helped remind her of all of the positive things in her life. It has become tradition that I paint my mother a bird of some sort every Christmas. This past year was a blue bird, a little bird to carry away her blues, and remind her yet again that although the economy is in a slump and people can let you down, family really doesn’t.”
