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I express my intangible feelings, narrating tales of common people, as I pursue daily life through tangible things. I want to touch some empathetic colors. Perhaps this process can keep us tied together, whether we are near or not. So, the sky is eternal happiness and also an intangible roof. Maybe the purpose of all activities is for that happiness, whenever we are 'Around the sky’.
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I express my intangible feelings, narrating tales of common people, as I pursue daily life through tangible things. I want to touch some empathetic colors. Perhaps this process can keep us tied together, whether we are near or not. So, the sky is eternal happiness and also an intangible roof. Maybe the purpose of all activities is for that happiness, whenever we are 'Under the sky’.
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During the Covid19 pandemic all of us can realize how it feels to be locked into quarantine. We feel nature inside from our box while asking for fresh air. This work is from a series examining the relationship between architectural and natural structures. The geometrically constructed environments create a strong contrast with the proliferation of organic elements.
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This work represents my view on life during quarantine, at home in lockdown and outside where nature is at its best blooming and flourishing. It contrasts the time we have now with the ‘normal’ time that we used to have. This has been a psychologically difficult time for me. It is as if we are in a waiting mode.
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This work represents my view on life during quarantine, at home in lockdown and outside where nature is at its best blooming and flourishing. It contrasts the time we have now with the ‘normal’ time that we used to have. This has been a psychologically difficult time for me. It is as if we are in a waiting mode.
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These works reference the effect light pollution has on birds. Light pollution disrupts their migratory patterns and causes birds to migrate at the wrong time of year. Like many environmental issues, this one isn't obviously apparent in our day to day lives. I see the effect this has on birds as a distant, quiet call for environmental action.
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These works reference the effect light pollution has on birds. Light pollution disrupts their migratory patterns and causes birds to migrate at the wrong time of year. Like many environmental issues, this one isn't obviously apparent in our day to day lives. I see the effect this has on birds as a distant, quiet call for environmental action.
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A quiet cityscape on a cloudy night. The cloudy sky and harsh lights show the anxiety that is oftentimes experienced when the city becomes quiet. This anxiety has become a part of everyday life during COVID-19. However, just as beauty can be found on quiet dark nights, there is beauty within these times as we await the end of this terrible pandemic.
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Today the stars appear again; what the earth has cried out to us finally happens. The waters crystallize and the air smells different. Smells of change. A change that asks us first to learn to live with ourselves, to move away a little to realize much. We live under the same sky, but each head is a world. Let that world remind us of what it is to be free and human.
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At the beginning, COVID-19 seemed that it would let up, but a few weeks down the line hope is dwindling in the air. Many people turn to various answers. I remain in the ether questioning how many times we will see the end of the world. Yet...somehow there is hope.
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This February, only the local convenience store remained open, while all the large retailers closed under the lockdown. Rendered in an experimental way, I applied a layer of one-directional scratched gesso to generate a vibrant-touching texture. Right next to the convenience store, three people’s silhouettes stare at the vending machine. With subtle light, this painting captures the scene and conveys the longing for normal life out of the dark period.
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Rendered in the conventional way, I painted the subjects without loss of detail, seizing the color generated by the lights of the store. The Illumination, with subtle lighting on the three standers’ silhouettes and the darkness in the background, symbolizes people drowning in anxieties during quarantine, while also conveying warmth and hope.
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We are all suffering from the effect of the Coronavirus. We are social people. Social connection, love, affection, social gathering and normal daily life help us to live healthy and good lives. We lost everything in the Corona epidemic. It creates distance. Everyone tries to stay happy. People come out to the street, but again and again, they need to maintain social distance.
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The subject matter of my painting is the slum, the broken portion of the developed city. My works are a conversation between the insecurities of the slums and the confident permanence of the high-rises. These two sides have been touching me continuously. The life of people here are full of ups and downs and layers of struggles.
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The seasonal poppy flowers on barren land come from my childhood memories. The scarlet bloody beauty of hundreds and thousands of red poppies could be tears, could be blood, or could be simply poppies growing unnaturally covering the barren land. The poppies encircle create not only a spectacular visual but also a location for personal reflection.
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I paint abandoned places in the city, reorganizing them on the canvas. A large tree that seemed to cover the building looked like a strange part of the city.
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In our society we maintain many distances and invisible walls. Some are absolutely unnecessary and yet exist. Social media have eradicated the distance between two people who are unrelated, yet can be connected. Funnily though, they increasingly create distance among those who actually are in close proximity. Distance also means lack of understanding. We hope for education and enlightenment.
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During this lockdown many of us stopped meeting physically with other people. However, everyday there are more spaces to keep talking with friends and family. Our messages travel across different latitudes. We not only send our best wishes to our beloved ones, we also become witnesses of connections made in the distance.
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This work engages visual poetics to delve into the idea of creating a scene prior to the image. It ponders to whom the table belonged and what happened before and after, emphatically and directly interpreting from the distant and imminent.
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The layers in this painting express my own visual experience. Taking natural patterns, from what is around me, is the grounding of the painting, with new vision covering it. The work also expresses human experience through its color and explosive application of paint.
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An exploration of oral stories collected in my memory. Exploration of memories of my own day-to-day events and stories told and retold by my surroundings. Always the result is a different
story from the past, maybe a fragmented one. I explore this idea of fragmented, unfolding the possibility of repair for longevity.
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This piece is part of the series "From kitchen to white walls: your trash is my treasure" started during the Covid-19 crisis. I used recycled materials from home to create surfaces to paint on. During difficult times, more than ever, one turns home. Nostalgia to be with family and friends seems to be a constant through isolation. I channel these feelings to find inspiration in the art historical past, visible in the streets of Caracas.
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This composition exists to create a calm meditative space for reflection. It is inspired by the marks left behind on a wall after the covering of graffiti. The form sits gently in the background whilst the repeated rows of colored lines pull the eye of the viewer elsewhere. This work comes from a series focused on themes of lost communication, erasure, censorship and the struggle for personal expression in a time that is increasingly individualized and homogenized.
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From an ongoing series--a simulacrum of how things may work within a structure or a system that may or may not be defined or delineated. The visual chasm may be obvious, yet the familiarity within the language this painting is using informs the audience of what I am trying to achieve.
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This is an incomprehensible request visible to all, but understood by few. Each part contains a message that is too small to be seen. It needs the union of all the pieces to be screamed and listened to. Then it says “HELP”.
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This painting is an abstract landscape, representing the vastness of distance and space, felt particularly strongly with the ongoing social isolation that many people are experiencing. Part of an ongoing body of work that explores color relationships, composition, and layering, it consists of many acrylic layers with a thick, tactile surface. Each color represents the layer in which it came from and exists in.
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My personal story is a sequence of moving from point to point, trying to raise the quality of living. In this project, a concentrating meditative action faces an anarchic off-system desire to break down everything. I want the audience to see the metaphysical gradient of two opposite points, and ask themselves: Where am I and who are my kin?
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In this image I seek to reveal how cults are causing division and imbalance in our communities. They teach us that we are separate from each other, when life is showing us the complete opposite.
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Born and raised in the sleepy suburbs of London, I was recently taken to an African market in Ghana and thought I was going to faint. People everywhere. Smelly smells. Someone grabbing your arms to buy a bra. All my westernized brain could do was internally scream. Little did I know that upon my return to the UK, with the Coronavirus self isolation and social distance measures in place, I would miss that market as if it were home.
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This historical moment transcends cultural differences, borders, ages. We are physically isolated by social distancing measures and at the same time hundreds of thousands of us around the world are living the same experience. I illustrate the way each of us occupies our days: praying, teleworking. Faced with all this as an artist, I wanted to bring a little warmth in these cold times of confinement and fear of coronavirus while at the same time sending a message: let's stay home and enjoy being together!
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I wanted to document my confinement playfully by involving my family. We created sets from what we had at home. The African fabrics remind us that we are all together in this crisis, no continent is spared. I didn't want to give a distressing image of this health crisis but rather to show how it has allowed us all to refocus on essential values: family ties, solidarity, compassion.
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Through reading we share emphatically (but not exclusively) human expression of curiosity. Two dramatically different people reading simultaneously is a very heartening idea. At its core, through reading, two people are acknowledging their inner child and with it a vulnerability, which I hope instills compassion. The man reading on the park bench is at the end of his book; while the other, in the café, is beginning his. This cyclical event offers many opportunities for shared understanding.
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Through reading the news we can begin to ‘know’ another, ‘an’-other. Someone, somewhere, who at the same moment is alive, feels, wants and thinks. Someone who our idea of was, initially, maybe opaque or prejudiced. Through the phenomenon of headlines a people, or a person and their place, enter our minds, maybe our vernacular. ‘Trump’, or ‘Wuhan’ come to mean more than the person or place. They become a feeling, of awe, fear, anger.
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The photograph was taken on the streets of London, United Kingdom, during 2019 when the government was negotiating its withdrawal from the EU. The most populous city in the EU, London is a symbol of multiculturalism with over 40 percent of the population born overseas and more than 300 languages spoken daily. Shot during a period of uncertainty about the country’s future relationship to the rest of the world.
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The photograph was taken on the streets of London, United Kingdom, during 2019 when the government was negotiating its withdrawal from the EU. The most populous city in the EU, London is a symbol of multiculturalism with over 40 percent of the population born overseas and more than 300 languages spoken daily. Shot during a period of uncertainty about the country’s future relationship to the rest of the world.
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This painting is a call from a distant place and time. It is from a series exploring identity, as a result of memory and distance. I went through thousands of pictures I found in my family's house in Milan. To illustrate the distance between my present self and the past, I used washed-out hues and asymmetrical structures, adding a layer of surrealism typical of the haze produced by memory.
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Isolation made me appreciate more the main human right--freedom. This piece represents my auto-portrait – girl watching through a window, wishing to be free again. Dry brush moves with black acrylic paint make strange vibrations, so the painting looks alive.
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Getting in touch with emotions, as the world enters an unprecedented phase of a global pandemic. Sometimes we feel happy. Sometimes we feel sad. Sometimes we feel angry or hurt, or fearful. Sometimes we feel love. Is there a way to protect while also healing ourselves from the pains of isolation and loneliness?
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Drawn at the start of a pandemic, the Observer is calm, can imagine the development of events and accepts the world. But it is difficult for her eyes to withstand what is happening with people.
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Absence captures the feelings of isolation and emotional distance that so many are feeling during this pandemic. The effect of worldwide lockdowns on mental health makes the need for mutual and community support more significant than ever.
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This is a portrait of me with two sides. Everyone has a side which is hidden inside, yet very powerful. It can be memories that never fade away or it can be hidden abilities that are not recognized by people. Being recognized or appreciated by others can reduce the pain of the hidden side.
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This young man is affected badly by Covid-19. His dad has died from the disease and all the weight of the world is on his shoulders.
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Walking along the roadside one afternoon, looking at the children returning from school, I thought about this boy on the street.
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The global pandemic has created a new world, transcending race, technological advancement, distance, wealth and power of individual nations. Showing how we all need each other, it gives us the need to call across the distance and unite as one formidable entity. The masks, representing different persons, races, cultures, religions and ideologies, are conjoined--showing that despite our differences, we can still be one; and despite distances, we can still reach out to each other.
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I always wonder why I am here. Every step is planned for a reason. Every step, it seems, will last forever. Who really places me here? How? Anyway, here am I.
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Reflecting on thoughts that come up during quarantine, this piece is from the series of works "Brief contemplations from the indoors".
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One wears a smile, she is fun to be with and vibrant, but there's a lot more behind the smile she carries. In this world where people enjoy the struggles of others, holding on to endless resentments, I've tried to throw some light on the bond of femininity by juxtaposing struggles and enjoyments in the same frame with bright bold colors.
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Even during social distancing, communication brings people together and closer to each other. It bridges the gap between individuals and groups through the flow of information and emotions. Communication helps us to unlock our minds by expressing ideas and feelings to each other. It also helps us to understand the emotions and thoughts of others, despite being physically apart from each other.
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About love in the times of the coronavirus. No one taught us to get close while keeping our distance.
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It is not an easy task to make a routine into a habit, as we are with social distancing. Sometimes anxiety takes over but, as time passes, the mundane becomes priceless.
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Amid this social lockdown, we are all separated from our friends and loved ones, but we stay connected with any means possible. As time passes I see the sky is getting clearer, birds are singing more often, and nature is getting back on track once again, as human interventions are absent.
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To see that moment of instability that we keep playing in our head, creating and recreating the rhythm out of it. We keep dragging ourselves further than before to discover something that we might have missed. It's like living in different eras over the time, while dealing with the process of identity, conversion, cure and self acceptance.
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This work is about preserving relationships during the Covid-19 quarantine.
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This image explores how isolation can happen in cities not because of space, but because of perception. It is created for an ongoing series--reflecting on the neighborhood of Summit Lake in Akron, Ohio.
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This sculpture is about the current social distancing we are all experiencing. The rocks and bricks are stand-ins for the body. The rocks rest on top of the glass pieces, acting as a protective layer between them and the grass floor they are compressing, creating a barrier between elements. The space between the rocks emphasizes the space between the floor and the space between one-another. The edges frame the bricks in an invisible prison.
