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
New Rules for the (Farmer’s) Marketplace
![Famrers Market-Landcaster Farms DSCF5122 Famrers Market-Landcaster Farms DSCF5122](https://pandemiclens.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Famrers-Market-Landcaster-Farms-DSCF5122-1024x767.jpg)
The farmer's market in Davis Square, Somerville (@massfmkts) is a much beloved tradition in the area. Every Wednesday from spring through the fall, you can find great produce, some prepared...
Still Closed until Further Notice
![Prudential Shopping Center Horizontal color photograph of people walking in the closed Prudential Shopping Center in Copley Square, Boston, MA.](https://pandemiclens.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/©-Steven-Edson_DSC3669-B-1024x683.jpg)
No news is good news but lately we have had too much bad news in almost all economic, health, social and political sectors. Boston was hammered with patients being admitted...
Just One Word: Plastics
![Sbennett-Drinkwater1-DSCF1342-p Sbennett-Drinkwater1-DSCF1342-p](https://pandemiclens.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Sbennett-Drinkwater1-DSCF1342-p-1024x735.jpg)
We’re all getting used to paying for just about everything with plastic these days and transacting with people behind plexiglass “sneeze guards.” (I've used a total of $7 in cash...
Signs of the Times, Collages 1-3
![SBennett-Signs of the Times Collage 2 SBennett-Signs of the Times Collage 2](https://pandemiclens.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SBennett-Signs-of-the-Times-Collage-2-1024x1024.jpg)
When the business lockdown started, I started taking pictures of signs on the inside of doors and windows of shops in the North Cambridge and Somerville, MA area. Some stores...
Walk-By 21
![SBennett-3999Walkin1-DSCF1694 SBennett-3999Walkin1-DSCF1694](https://pandemiclens.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SBennett-3999Walkin1-DSCF1694-1024x1024.jpg)
I used to take a lot of photos of people passing by the "$39.99 Walk-In" sign in the window of the message therapy practice near my house. The bold stark...
Going Dental in the Pandemic Age
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A couple of months ago, the idea of going to the dentist was inconceivable. A talk with Dr. Chang, a prosthodontist and faculty member at Harvard University’s School of Dental...
The New Gallery Norm
![CAA-DSCF4019-7 CAA-DSCF4019-7](https://pandemiclens.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CAA-DSCF4019-7-1024x1024.jpg)
As we inch towards some vague semblance of normality, a number of art galleries in the Boston area are cautiously opening by appointment and with the standard safety measures in...
Summer in the City
![THLee-Nightfall-Pandemoic THLee-Nightfall-Pandemoic](https://pandemiclens.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/THLee-Nightfall-Pandemoic-1024x1024.jpg)
The summer of 2020 will live in our collective memory for decades to come. A global pandemic becoming more deadly by the day, a country beginning its reckoning with centuries...