CoroNation

From the Artist: This painting is a document of 2020, our losses, our fears, the courage of some, the venality of others and the abject delusion of others still. The year does not feel over or climbed out of. We lost John Lewis, RGB, George Floyd, and yet in our horror and disappointment and crying out for justice, their spirit made us stronger and as a people we grew. The Virus remains everywhere, mutating, murdering the innocent, yet we are in the midst of vaccines. In the painting, RGB and John Lewis rise, keeping us mindful of their lives’ truths to live up to. George Floyd shines out over a Nurse running with her patient to escape the Virus hurdling towards her. The skeletons, partying with their flag and emptied wine bottle are not where they thought. Nor are the family swimming in their inner tubes turned into Covid cells, Or Trump being squeezed by the Virus. The pulsing blue ventilation tubes trying to strangle the monster push the cells around, the used plastic gloves, trying their very best and the Va c c i n e ( g re e n fo r h e a l t h ) f i g h t i n g a g a i n s t t h e Pandemic. Then there is the lone Covid Virus with paint brushes and musical notes arising throughout it as the Artists attempts at being a different form of healing, benefiting humanity in another way than medical. Damn, this year must be better..