Archive for March 2021
LA Pandemic Life, 2
A year into the pandemic and I’m still documenting street life in the diverse neighborhoods of Los Angeles. I’m interested in the mundane and the everyday as life goes on here. Copyright © 2021 Brooke McCreary Brooke McCrearyBrooke McCreary is an amateur photographer who captures pandemic life in Los…
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Isolation is a free-motion quilted piece, framed in knitting and executed during this long hard pandemic winter. One part of a triptych, isolation is a study in how it feels to be isolated while surrounded by the unknowns of contracting a disease that might prove to be of little consequence, on the one hand, or…
Read MoreMonday “Masks of Boston” 2021 #11
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 MorePandemic Traces
These drawings were made during this past year of the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 2020 to March 2021. I think of myself as a landscape painter—I’ve been painting land/seascapes for more than ten years. When the stay-at-home orders began, I knew I wouldn’t be getting into my studio often. I grabbed some simple supplies so…
Read MoreHope and Light
As a Californian, I realize every day how even in these unprecedented times, there is so much natural beauty reminding me that there is hope and light. There are people, too, looking for and finding hope in their daily environment as in this street scene below: . Copyright © 2021 Nadine Levin …
Read MoreLetting Go of Winter
As some warmer days get sprinkled through March, I can’t help but think of Shakespeare’s opening line in Richard III, Now is the winter of our discontent. Whether it is the minor struggles of cabin fever and too many Zooms, or the major devastation of lost lives and jobs, we are all tired and sad…
Read MoreA Covid Life for The Rabbi Goes West
Last March, Covid-19 crushed the independent movie world. Two major film festivals, South by Southwest and Tribeca, despite much-anticipated world premieres of documentaries and features, were canceled on the spot. Woe to the poor filmmakers who had spent years making their movies and then had their big break pulled out from under them. Some have…
Read MoreGeneration Gap
It was a lovely day on the Jersey Shore. Not a cloud in the sky. The temperatures were pushing 60. And the people came out to walk the boardwalk in Asbury Park. All ages. Some bore the remnants of winter clothing. Some just wore t-shirts. Most still were masked, even as the ocean breezes emboldened a…
Read MoreSubjects Close at Hand
As the pandemic approached one year, I found myself struggling to find subject matter that seemed relevant to the times and to me. Before Covid, I was painting subjects from the retail world. I took that experience and transitioned to painting pandemic-related topics. Several of these paintings were posted earlier on this site. The most…
Read MoreMonday “Masks of Boston” 2021 #10
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…
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