Artist Kara Hoblin is a Long Island native who lives and works in Greenport on the North Fork. A sense of wonder and whimsy runs throughout her work in various media, including chalk, drawing, painting, and murals. Hoblin’s live chalk drawings, which illuminate social issues and environmental topics, are sometimes ceremoniously erased in a healing process that she has coined the “chalk art of letting go.” Inspired and drawn to the natural environment, she finds comfort in the feeling of the earth beneath her bare feet, icy saltwater on her skin, or crisp air brushing against her face. Hoblin’s hope is to “inspire, heal, and connect through creation”—encouragement for us all to move forward with positivity.