The month of June (or rather, the time of early summer between June and July's moons) is also called the Strawberry Moon ✨️🍓✨ and in many Indigenous and First Nations cultures, wild strawberries are known as heart berries 🍓❤️🍓 Shaped like a heart, her fruit is connected to her leaves, runners and roots, like our hearts are connected to all parts of our body and spirit, and to our family and community 🍓❤️🍓 To some, she represents a nurturing love, femininity and renewal, mothers and mother earth, the power of women to create and sustain life 🍓❤️🍓 She is central to so many beautiful stories and teachings, I encourage you to hear them directly (just a search away) from Potawatomi, Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, Cherokee or Mohawk voices~ in particular, "The Gift of Strawberries", a chapter from Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass 🍓❤️🍓

This is an 8×10” giclee print of my original painting, Wild Strawberry (Heart Berry). It’s printed with archival ink on thick, textured cotton rag paper, signed on the back, packaged in a protective sleeve with backing board, and ready for a standard-size frame.

Archival prints are shipped in a flat envelope through USPS Priority Mail.