Pat Dolan, Sharon Brady, and I have been enjoying a COVID-19 project since March 22, 2020. Each day one of us sends a poem to the group. We paint a picture using the poem as a prompt. We text the pictures to each other. The paintings include themes of protecting the...
As an artist living alone in mid-March 2020, art allowed me to quiet my fear enough to sleep at night. Without a typical work schedule requiring me to leave the house to guide my hours, I found myself waking up and pacing in my bedroom at random intervals throughout...
I knew the virus was coming, I had been listening and paying attention to the news about the outbreak in China. I prepared early, grocery shopped and hoped for the best. On March 13th my daughter’s school closed which meant my teen would be home all day, no more...
I have always found myself intrigued by abandoned spaces of community engagement. The gentle disorder draws me in, and I can only explain this magnetism to social leftovers through my own introverted tendencies. Now, however, I find myself mourning these empty scenes...
Given the added burden of corona-related isolation on top of western toxic pathological hyper-individualism we are now more than ever struggling to stay grounded in our bodies, connected to nature and our human tribes while remaining true to ourselves and each other....
