Covid Running Wild

From the Artist: This summer, I contracted Covid-19. Fine one moment - agonized the next. With art as my medium, the paintings mimic the way the virus flowed through my body - the way it forever changed my quality of life. My capabilities were sapped, my vital organs overstressed and finally a muscle in my heart S L O W E D. It felt as though, at any moment, I could be taking my final breath.....but then the medicine began to work, my body started to fight back! My paintings are abstracts on canvas, done in acrylics. The first two paintings represent the virus moving and coursing through my body, embodied in my art with the technique of pouring paint generating a sense of motion, interconnectedness. The third painting is meant to be a general expression of my overall mood since the onset of the pandemic. I was overcome by a sense of numbness, detached from reality: seeing everything but not truly comprehending it. I went through my daily activities in a sort of trance - dream walking - waiting to awaken and see that reality has returned to the way it had once been. To illustrate these emotions I used cool colors and the pouring paint technique mentioned above, depicting the whirlwind of thought and fantasy that was constantly overtaking my mind, never truly allowing me to think clearly and take in what was going on.