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# Bend the Air by Gail D. Panske
- URL: https://www.fsm.ink/bend-the-air-by-gail-d-panske/
- Published: 2020-09-15T21:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-03T18:59:33.000Z
- Author: Staff
- Tags: Fine Art, #Import 2026-08-03 09:59

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Gail D. Panske. *Bend The Air.* Woodcut, serigraph on paper. 2018.

From the first time I read the poem *What Night Knows*, I could not stop thinking about it. I kept returning to it, trying to understand itsmeaning. I kept going back to the lines, “Some women ride dreams, And bend the air, freeing”. At some point it became obvious to methat I was searching for a way to represent a woman who bent the air. That strong and powerful woman was Justice Ginsburg.

*Gail D. Panske (Oshkosh, WI) received her MFA from Indiana University and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She is the recipient of an Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship. Along with her prolific art career,Panske is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh.*