Description

Giclée print on cotton rag paper, July 2020. Signed and numbered from an edition of 60. 55 x 65 centimeters, unframed. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, social distancing rules and lockdown measures presented a challenge to me as I was no longer able to photograph models for paintings. This put my figurative work on the back burner, and I needed another subject to paint. Every day while in the lockdown, I photographed and painted two small plants that I had recently repotted and was keeping on my balcony. The work documents the simple act of keeping the plants alive during the lockdown. Each work took 5-7 hours to make and allowed me to discard building concepts and focus primarily on the painting process making each work a daily meditation, allowing reflection on physical space and the passing of time while marking a day of the crisis. Throughout the lockdown I created 32 small still life works, this print provides a cross-section of 9 of them.