CORONA LOOK-OUt
During this great global quarantine, our behavior has been shaped by the contamination of the world. We have separated ourselves from others in order to escape the virus outside, which is invisible, soundless and deadly. As a result, we have been spending much more time looking out of windows than we ever have before. The window has become the safe way for us to see the world without touching it and to reflect our inside world out.
Each of the photographs in this series portrays a window upon which segments of my own paintings and family portraits have been reflected. In some cases, the window in the picture plane is a tiny rectangle of light that seems very far away to emphasize the isolation we must endure; in others, it has absorbed the colors of the image being reflected and been transformed. Somewhat out of focus and jarring, the photographs exude a sense of nostalgia, loneliness and longing. By joining reflections of my own paintings and family photographs with images of my own windows, I am stressing that during times of crises like this one, as we try to make sense of our changing reality, art can serve as a life raft and hold us up while we get our bearings.
