We Will Still Be Here
Though it has been almost two years since the start of the pandemic, the news regarding COVID-19 is especially discouraging these days. Was it only seven months ago, in June...
New Year’s Eve 2021
This is not what I expected to be posting on New Year's Eve 2021. In fact, I couldn't imagine that I'd be posting anything new on The Pandemic Lens on...
Falling And Failing In Our Dystopian Era
Stills reeling with the confluence of crises and global polarization and today it came out sounding like … this:
Moongazer
My "Moongazer"" series portrays ancient legends that describe the power of the moon to radiate magic spells and cause people to oscillate crazily between sanity and lunacy. How appropriate for...
A False Start to a New Beginning
New Beginnings is a work I painted last December, just as news of vaccine approvals was making headlines. It depicts that celestial moment when daybreak begins but the night sky...
Small Things That Have No Words
When my father suffered his first heart attack in October, 1979, other farmers from our township brought their combines to our fields. They harvested our soybeans, loaded them onto their...
Delta Means Change
After getting vaccinated, I had curbed my (maybe unhealthy) fascination with my countys' Department of Health data. And a handful of weeks ago? I had a skip-happy-hand-in-hand-with-the-CDC moment when I...
Waters of Life
Among Judaism’s most ancient traditions is mikveh—the ritual bath. Contrary to popular misconception, ritual immersion is not about “cleansing” oneself from impurity. Rather, it is a ritual of transition, a...
