Archive for January 2021
Monday “Masks of Boston” 2021 #2
Who do you wear a mask for? (Ed. Note: Every Monday, The Pandemic Lens publishes an image from Katherine Taylor’s “Masks of Boston” project. To date, Kathryn has photographed nearly 300 people from all walks of life. Visit “Masks of Boston” to read the profile of each person and learn who they wear a mask…
Read MoreA Sense of Belonging
In March 2020, the pandemic led to a lockdown in the UK, as it did in many countries. Our worlds shrank. Yet, despite the worries, for me there was a silver lining—I became intimately connected with the landscape around the small village where I live in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Every day I would walk along the…
Read MoreNo Audience
A small theater selected a work of mine for the drama Tor und Tod by Hugo v. Hofmannsthal. A large-format stage design was created as a background. During theater rehearsals at TheaterLabor TraumGesicht Düsseldorf, inspired by the scenes, more works developed. Then came the performance ban due to the coronavirus pandemic. The stage room stayed…
Read MoreA Pandemic for All Seasons
Spring 2020—we thought the “new normal” would surely be temporary. Then it extended to summer 2020. And fall 2020. And winter 2020. I’m hoping to show a very different collage at the end of 2021. Copyright © 2021 Steve Bennett Steve BennettSteve Bennett is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based visual artist. He began taking photographs…
Read MoreDark Matter, Dark Day
Yesterday marked a new high in the death toll in the US from COVID-19 (nearly 4,000), alongside a new low in the history of American democracy. I decided that this focus-stacked macro image, Dark Matter, expressed both events by depicting the chaos, uncertainty, and turbulence in the road ahead. Copyright © 2021 Steven…
Read MoreFrontliner Paints Through COVID-19
In late Februrary, health care workers and lay people alike heard the first inklings of the presence of the COVID-19 virus on the shores of the continental US. Physician groups across social media were sounding the alarm and posting photos of their tired, exhausted faces in states like Washington and Oregon. Affected physicians were providing…
Read MoreDrive-In Concerts
Concerts and gigs during the Covid-19 pandemic? Well, for most of us small-time musicians, life sort of came to a halt in the spring of 2020. Studio production could continue, online concerts could take place, and it has been a time for exploring our direction and compositional skills. However, the live music landscape had changed…
Read MoreMonday “Masks of Boston” 2021 #1
Who do you wear a mask for? (Ed. Note: Every Monday, The Pandemic Lens will publish an image from Katherine Taylor’s “Masks of Boston” project. Today’s photo is a great image for the start of the new year. To date, Kathryn has photographed nearly 300 people from all walks of life. Visit “Masks of Boston”…
Read MoreLight in the Dark
I ran a small art gallery and studio for eleven years but was forced to close when the pandemic hit. Then, as the days shortened and I dreaded the coming of winter and being stuck indoors, I started sketching outside more. It was revelatory! I felt such a renewed and powerful connection to nature that…
Read MoreThe Eyes Have It
In the movie The Wedding Date, an otherwise mediocre and utterly predictable rom-com, the male lead says to his date, who is obsessing over what clothes she should wear to a party, “Let me teach you a trick—if you look people in the eye, they won’t notice what you’re wearing.” The fact that it’s a…
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