Archive for February 2021
On Either Side of the Window: Portraits During COVID-19
It seems as if life was on hold this past year—for everyone. I am always straddling my two cultures and identities, as a Lebanese/Palestinian and as an American. It feels as if the news is always creating divisions, “them v/s us,” and now here we are a “we”: all in this together, in the same…
Read MoreHolding On
Holding on… to what, and for what? A coffee? A book? Families and friends? Ideals? Dreams? Or, life back to normal? We have been hearing too many times to hang on, to hold on in the past year. May what you are holding on for soon be within your reach. Copyright © 2021 Jennifer…
Read MoreOn the Bridge of Sighs
As an architect, I am interested in how people move through space. Essential to this perspective is the passage of time. COVID-19 has brought us to a “new normal” and even beyond. This is uncharted territory for the world. Yet we persist, as individual travelers through this world, in sometimes diverse and sometimes conflicting ways.…
Read MoreMonday “Masks of Boston” 2021 #7
Who do you wear a mask for? (Ed. Note: Each 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 MoreLove in the Time of Covid
It’s like traveling to a foreign country, where you know absolutely no one, are confused about the customs, and don’t speak the language. If you are a couple, well, here you are, just the two of you (and kids and dogs and cats and Zoom and portents of doom), coming face-to-face with all the things…
Read MoreFrom the Heart
I started the heart series before the pandemic with no goal other than making something beautiful and decorative. The series was an experiment in form and color. But as the pandemic began, the hearts took on new meaning. They became a conduit for expressing my own inner turmoils. And they became a way of connecting…
Read MoreThe Pandemic and My Work
I perceive the pandemic as a diffuse threat and a restriction on many opportunities for action and encounter in my life. Only one thing remains unrestricted: my work in the shelter of my studio. Here I feel free and safe. Layers and blurring of colors and contrasts between light and dark open up the…
Read MoreSpiraling: Life in a Pandemic
So many thoughts and emotions around COVID-19. I had to paint it out—this emotional tempest in my mind. Our lives literally spiraling out of our control, our privileged lives restricted. The spiral, bottom left, literally 2020 spiraling out of control. Collaged fragments of topographic maps from places we didn’t travel. A stylized COVID…
Read MoreEnvisioning our Isolation II
The following paintings continue a series that I started around the time Covid-19 entered our lives. The work extends my meditation on the loneliness and melancholia brought about by the pandemic. The new paintings are inspired by the plays of shadows and light, and the emptiness we find in our profoundly changed environments. …
Read MoreMinority Rules Could Sound Like This
The blues is about acknowledging challenges and hardship and also expresses the momentum to complain and go on keeping on….Even to have fierce propulsive joy as we deal with the confluence of turbulence in our world. Copyright © 2021 Stanley Sagov Stanley SagovStanley Sagov leads an intense dual life as a physician…
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