What now?

It’s like closing the door behind us and entering a familiar place we have not visited in a while. We know what we should do, how we should act, but there are behaviors from our recent past that we have now acquired as too essential for our lives to be whole. With hesitancy, yet with…

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Invisible Spreading: Virus and Art

In an earlier post (Waiting for This to End: My “Pandemic days” Project), I mentioned how at the beginning of the pandemic creating new art felt superfluous and I was stuck. I wondered what the role of an artist should be during a crisis as extraordinary as the one we were, and still are, living…

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Waiting for This to End: My “Pandemic days” Project

During my art practice, I ruminate on an emotion brought upon by a personal or global issue — like my recurrent concern about the climate crisis. When the pandemic took over our lives, my full attention shifted to this new global calamity, its immediate and long-term consequences. In the beginning, creating any type of art…

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