Still Life is Good
Guest Artist, Hyunjoo Cho This is my town. The blue circle in the middle !!! It’s me. Oh, the neighbor next door went out to somewhere… It looks like every circle is isolated. It’s actually isolated. We live in different colors and different shapes in our own space. Nevertheless, everyone
Isolation In White
Mikiko Takase. November .29.2020 People stay home. Covid-19 brings anxiety to our world An elderly lady has a house in our neighborhood. She fell down the stairs and is forced to live by the window. She told me it is quiet and calm, but lonely. She reads books, makes crafts
LOCKDOWN
Guest Artist Henry James Hay Japan 2020 Masks silence Dogs walk people Farm Stand Small coins in plastic bottle University English Conversation Online Never me Grandchildren USA Kadra Senior no soccer games Anna 21 Grandpa can’t buy her a beer Gabe and Lucas tall tales Fish deer turkey Pictures
ISOLATION
Doerte-Ina Liebing 40″ x 34″ (hand-dyed cotton, charcoal drawing on paper, stamp with acrylic, machine quilting) The term “ISOLATION” has gained enormous importance and frequency in use in our present life. Since the beginning of 2020, the entire world is no longer like it was before. We are living in
Forgotten
From Guest Artist Jeanne Marklin Isolation brought to mind so many situations. The social isolation we have been doing since March has had me thinking about the ways that people are isolated. People who live on the street, the ones who are estranged from family, those who have mental health
Creative Solitude
From Guest Artist Gisela Nickbakht 40″ x 29″ The story of Terry Waite immediately crossed my mind. He was taken hostage in Beirut, kept in solitary confinement for four years. He endured fear and loneliness but maintained his mental resilience. As mutual exercise he developed the ability to “write“ in
On the Inside, Looking Out?
Guest Artist – Jenny Bowker – Canberra Australia I was delighted with the Isolation prompt. In January when the first Covid 19 cases were recorded in USA and Australia I dithered about going to the States to teach at Road to California. We had watched videos of Chinese collapsing in
Down the Street
It has been estimated that domestic violence has increased by over 35% during this period of Covid 19 and the lockdowns created to try and restrict the spread of the virus. It would be bad enough living with an abuser but being trapped in a house for weeks on end
Isolation, the Quilt
You’re probably wondering what this quilt has to do with isolation. It started out when I made individual pieced blocks, which by themselves (in isolation) were not that exciting. But when I started putting them together (into a community), they made for a pretty cool composition. You can read more
Nowhere to Go
Libby Cerullo, Elverson, PA“Nowhere to Go” 40 x 32 inches (HxW) I have been working on a series of “Portraits of Women as Trees”; trees, that out of isolation and loneliness became both self-expression and companions. This work emerged from trees I photographed over several winters, sometimes lying in the