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

A visit to Shirley Chisholm State Park, Brooklyn NY

Such an amazing park created on a landfill site. Right on the water, it allows for both land and sea strolls.

Prints are available at: coronavirus seawall, fall 2020 @Shirley Chisholm State Park. Available for purchase at Imagekind.

The Sphinx Moth caterpillar discovered.

And a wonderful array of types of crabs.

Thank you for viewing. Cheers, Callie

Inculsion in the Feminist Studies Journal, Fall 2020

pandemic daydreams was created during the period of March 2020 thru July 2020, and continues on. Encouraged by the series, I hope to work on a larger scale and really push my comfort level. Funny thing is, my comfort level is being pushed most everyday due to the pandemic. Remembering to put a mask on whenever I leave my apartment, not seeing friends and family, and doing my day job at my living room table. I am learning to adjust and be ok with things being different, uncomfortable. As we move forward my skills at finding less crowded places to go and getting good deals for food staples on line are benefiting me greatly. Zoom calls are becoming more comical and I am getting to do yoga and pilates!

We all must find a comfort level in all this madness. Stay safe and vote!

Namaste Callie CallieArtcom

Feminist Journal inclusion of pandemic daydreams!

I am thrilled to be involved with this journal and am honored by the inclusion of a full color spread of my "pandemic daydreams" painting series created during the covid 19 virus outbreak in 2020!
For Feminist Studies journal information, click here!

New Beginnings, a video collaborative by Islip Art Museum

Very excited to be part of this wonderful project! Art at 50 Plus, New Beginnings, Islip Art Museum and AARP sponsored, CallieArt (at point 32.52)

New art in my "pandemic daydreams" series

And the pandemic continues. We are well into August now, I just celebrated my 56th birthday. I was not fond of being 55, so this is a good thing. Also, Kamala Harris just got tapped to be VP, which gives me much hope, and had me singing on the morning of my birthday.


Sharing with you some newly finished pieces that I am about to put up on my website, CallieArt.com

pandemic daydreams xiii

pandemic daydreams xv

pandemic daydreams xvi 

This series continues to play out, as does the pandemic. More people are continuing to test positive for covid-19 and the government would like to test less to bring the numbers down. They would also like to remove all the post boxes, so people will be unable to vote via mail in the upcoming election. Did I mention the air, they would like to continue to pollute it, so that they will keep getting payments from the big companies that need laws to change for the worse so that they can continue to thrive. I think we are doing smashingly well in destroying our planet the fastest way possible.

Good for us!  Please, vote to save us from such madness. We can not keep moving ahead in this fashion if we hope to have a planet left for our kids to play in.

Thank you for listening to my rant today.
Callie

Carry on, wear a mask, and keep distant from others, for they may carry a virus that can kill you...