Pandemic works
Assorted small works on paper, created mostly in sketchbooks through winter, spring, and part of the summer of 2020

I stopped going to my studio to work at the same time I began working my job from home on March 16. Instead, I would draw in sketchbooks and drawing pads at home. When the weather became nicer I would go to Prospect Park (near to where I live in Brooklyn), where I found a little perch on an isolated path and would draw every day after finishing my job work.

Every evening I’d walk home to cheers: the banging of pots and clapping and cheering that occurred every day in those early months for the essential workers who braved the viral onslaught to help all of us who spent most of our day in our homes. That cheering helped us too - in thanking and cheering those who made the sacrifice to help others we stood by them and also acknowledged our own human fragility in face of so many unknowns. (Sad now to think of how that communal feeling was worn away by so much that happened subsequently, and that now we are so split as a country).

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