This Won’t Last Forever

2020-2021

“This Won’t Last Forever” is a print series and installation documenting the first 100 days of the Coronavirus Pandemic in the United States. About a week into “shelter in place” I found myself drawing and carving several small blocks at once as a way to deal with the anxiety of such an abruptly unprecedented time.One of these images was a dove in flight. I soon realized I wanted to create a dove to represent every day of the impending quarantine. The process, much like the first several months of lock-down, was tedious and maddening. Every day felt like a faulty duplicate of the last; another variation of grief, anxiety, anger, restlessness, depression, fear. Trying to find some insight, beauty, and meaning to each day is reflected in the process of having to create a new version of the same image over and over again. The final installation becomes a calendar for a deeply surreal and profound period; with a daily action the individual dove multiplies over time to create a flock.