As I start to write this, I have Debbie Baxter’s photographic tribute to healing open on my lap. I am sitting comfortably in my favorite chair by a roaring fire, but my cheeks are damp. Not with sadness, but with swelling admiration and hope. Her book, NEST, is a tribute to courage—the courage of trauma survivors to grapple with their demons and learn to trust, to feel, and to face their pain. . .
Read David’s Art Letter essay, Demons and twigs: The healing art of Debbie Baxter, featured in Oregon ArtsWatch