Going Rouge — Janine Bertolo

Janine Bertolo (she/her)
5 min readJun 12, 2020

My seahorse is 2 years old!​​​​​​​​

I painted him in the early days of the first pandemic stay-at-home.​​​​​​​​

I was feeling optimistic, energetic, ready;​​​​​​​​ even excited about meeting over zoom to connect for painting classes.​​​​​​​​

Imagine that.​​​​​​​​

Pandemic fatigue is strong in this one. And we’re not over it yet.​​​​​​​​

Despite all that’s come and gone in the last two years, spring has once again followed winter.​​​​​​​​

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Janine Bertolo (she/her)

Living & working in Gatineau, Quebec, on the unceded territory of the Algonquin People. Post-trauma growth coach. Anticapitalist crone. Loves to float.