KJ Hannah Greenberg

Ivy 2

A wall of ivy behind a bed of greenery with stems, flowers, and leaves in varying states of growth and decay. These flowering plants with pods parsimoniously represent the cycle of life. Ivy2 = A plant community incorporating English Ivy teaches the importance of tolerating "other species."
A wall of ivy behind a bed of greenery with stems, flowers, and leaves in varying states of growth and decay. These flowering plants with pods parsimoniously represent the cycle of life. Artist’s Statement: A plant community incorporating English Ivy teaches the importance of tolerating “other species.”

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Pods 4

Branches and fronds of vibrant green flowering plants with several long, hanging green pods amongst other shrubbery in front of a white-washed brick wall. Pods4 = These flowering plants with pods parsimoniously represent the cycle of life.

Branches and fronds of vibrant green flowering plants with several long, hanging green pods among other shrubbery in front of a white-washed brick wall.
Artist’s Statement: These flowering plants with pods parsimoniously represent the cycle of life.

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Reaching

A leafy vine growing towards the ceiling of a greenhouse-style canopy, with tendrils wrapped around support struts. There are sparse flowers and random yellowing leaves. Other green plants surround the vine on the bottom.Reaching = We must look Heavenward to restore ourselves.
A leafy vine growing toward the ceiling of a greenhouse canopy, with tendrils wrapped around support struts. There are sparse flowers and some yellowing leaves. Other green plants surround the vine on the bottom.
Artist’s Statement: We must look Heavenward to restore ourselves.

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Sweet Potato Vine

Close up of a vibrant bright green sweet potato vine next to a bricked wall, with smaller round leaved vines growing in and around it. Sweet Potato Vine = Ordinarily grown from mere plant slips, this vine calls to mind that perseverance, coupled with good fortune, can triumph over adversity.
Close up of a vibrant bright green sweet potato vine next to a bricked wall, with smaller round leaved vines growing in and around it.
Artist’s Statement = Ordinarily grown from mere plant slips, this vine calls to mind that perseverance, coupled with good fortune, can triumph over adversity.

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About the Artist

KJ Hannah Greenberg’s been playing with words for an awfully long time. Initially a rhetoric professor and a National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar, she shed her academic laurels to romp around with a prickle of imaginary hedgehogs. Thereafter, her creative efforts have been nominated once for The Best of the Net in poetry, once for The Best of the Net in art, three times for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for poetry, once for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for fiction, once for the Million Writers Award for fiction, and once for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. To boot, Hannah’s had fifty books published and has served as an editor for several literary journals. Visit her website at: https://kjhannahgreenberg.net/.