This issue's cover features a soft pastel painting by Denver artist Riva Sweetrocket. Her renditions of personal experience tell universal stories of human struggle and triumph.

Widely honored and collected, Sweetrocket is one of the leading contemporary visual artists currently working in Colorado, and is represented by Plus Gallery (www.plusgallery.com) in Denver.

Secret was recently on display at Plus along with six other large-scale works in the solo exhibition "Handle with Care" form March 9-April 12th, 2008.

We also used Sweetrocket's Strawberry II to illustrate our Healing Plate column in this issue. Please see below.

For a closer look at Sweetrocket's painting, visit Plus or call the gallery at 303-296-0927.

See more of Riva's work at
www.rivasweetrocket.com

Strawberry II
About The Forbidden Fruit Series:
We sometimes place psychological or emotional limitations on ourselves. I see barbed wire as a metaphor for these self-imposed restrictions. What’s inside us is beautiful and complex, and yet we often are the ones that question, criticize or veil this magnificence.