Happy New Year! 2021 can not come fast enough!

Life vs Death, taken at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY. 2020

Choose life, stay masked, get your vaccine, and slowly we will return to a time when we can see our friends again. I miss my peeps. My nieces and nephew are showing zoom fatigue more then the adults. I hate that I can not visit my neighbors without an uncomfortable mask on. I do not believe in safe pods, we are out and about too much to be truly safe.

We all have a unique view on our ideas of risk, it is challenging to sometimes understand how some think that they are invinceable. I have all my necessities delivered if I can, wine being my favorite. I realize how much I really am a social animal, even though I am always seeking isolation to paint, I require a balance. Extremes in anything is unhealthy for the human mind and body. So do what works for you, but remember, we are all in this together and just because you think you will not get covid, does not make it reality. Magical thinking only goes so far when science is involved.

Stay safe, looking forward to seeing you in the new year! Cheers, Callie

Pandemic Photography, Dec. 2020

This year has been a strange pivot in reality. Staying in my home and painting is like I was handed a artist residency! (I was able to do my day job from home, so was lucky that way financially). I created the series titled: pandemic daydreams, and it has already been shown in LIC, NY. Shown to whom, who knows, but it was a two month show in May. 2020. I was granted the space a year ago, and was not about to give up my time slot due to some pandemic. I dropped the paintings off wearing a mask and gloves, and the manager took on the job of hanging the show in the hip youth hostel. They remained open to customers, and have a lounge and coffee shop type storefront. So, who knows who is still traveling about and staying in Long Island City during the pandemic. Originally I had been so thrilled to secure a two month show, and in warm weather months! That was before the pandemic hit and changed life as we know it.

I also went out walking, almost everyday. I live by Green-Wood Cemetery, and can easily make my way out to Rockaway beach via car. The photograph of WSQ Park, in NYC, was taken on my trip in to do three doctor visits in one day. Yes, quite proud of being able to arrange such a feat. This is my life during the covid-19 pandemic of 2020-2021.

Stay safe, wear your mask and stay away from people as much as humanly possible. Cheers, Callie