Rachel Suffern is an artist and writer who enjoys depicting the places she loves in a variety of mediums. She began her creative journey on the banks of the Tar River in Eastern North Carolina but has since lived in Seattle, Charleston, and Huntsville, Alabama. She has worked as a barista, a political intern, a texture artist for a modeling and simulation company, and a stay-at-home mom. After wandering the country, she has finally settled back in the Wolfpack State (or the Tar Heel State for some).
“These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.”
- C.S. Lewis