Sleeping in the Forest mixx projects immortalized in their cowboy best

immortalized in their cowboy best

Brenda Bogart's gestural portraits of these stars of yesteryear get a punch of fresh energy from her pop art brights that temper their dramatic façades

By Tammi Brazee

Part of her series of famous musicians

Sleeping in the Forest mixx projects immortalized in their cowboy bestInspired by Mary Oliver's beloved poem, this captures that dreamy space between sleep and wakefulness where you're everything and nothing at once. I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the