Artist's images, musings, and observations
about life in the time of corona
Artist's images, musings, and observations about life in the time of corona
Omicron Edition 2022
Life on the Inside
![Kim_Triedman__Chinatown_ Kim Triedman, Chinatown, Collage on canvas, 14.5" x 11.5", 2020](https://pandemiclens.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Kim_Triedman__Chinatown_.jpg)
I am a published poet and novelist. I began working in collage as a way to further indulge my fascination with story. Collage is a kind of visual poetry. It...
Allegiance
![R29 Alliegance 18 1/4 x 24 1/4 s 1978 R29 Alliegance 18 1/4 x 24 1/4 s 1978](https://pandemiclens.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/fullsizeoutput_5342-752x1024.jpeg)
(This post refers to works by my late husband, Bill Oakes, a visionary, educator, and prolific painter.) This is an illustration Bill did for a newspaper. I named it “Allegiance.” ...
Quarantine: Artists and Writers on Isolation
![1 Bill_Armstrong_Cover 1 Bill_Armstrong_Cover](https://pandemiclens.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1-Bill_Armstrong_Cover.jpg)
On March 22nd, 2020, the day of the shutdown, I left my home in New York City and drove with my daughter to my sister’s house in rural Massachusetts. It...
Monday “Masks of Boston” 2021 #3
![K.Taylor_Tanisha Duchatelier_3538 K.Taylor_Tanisha Duchatelier_3538](https://pandemiclens.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/K.Taylor_Tanisha-Duchatelier_3538-683x1024.jpg)
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...
Turbulence
![IMG_1959 IMG_1959](https://pandemiclens.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_1959-704x1024.jpeg)
“To submerge oneself in hazy, unsettled waters requires humbleness and a strong heart. Currents may drift you away from what you’re looking for, silencing the inner voice that will guide...
CHAOS
![kim_craig_Chaos kim_craig_Chaos](https://pandemiclens.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/kim_craig_Chaos.jpg)
I started this painting on January 6, 2021, a day when the US registered nearly 4,000 Covid-19 deaths and political violence at the US capitol shook the nation. On that...
Peace in the Unknown
![Syeda_Raji_Charles:MGH Syeda Raji, Charles/MGH, Acrylic Paint, 6" x 9" inches, 2020](https://pandemiclens.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Syeda_Raji_CharlesMGH.jpg)
During the earliest weeks of the pandemic, around the time Governor Baker announced a state of emergency in Massachusetts, I was not thinking too much about my artwork. I had...
Slow
![micheal_keesling_snail5 micheal_keesling_snail5](https://pandemiclens.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/micheal_keesling_snail5.jpg)
One of the things that defines who I am is driving. Driving is my meditation. Driving is totally alien from an evolutionary standpoint, and I revel in its foreignness. Springtime,...