'They Can't Cancel The Spring'
Covid Confinement, April, 2020
On my increasingly restricted wanders, Spring is rebelliously spilling out.
In quarantine defiance, David Hockney's ' words resonate: 'They Can't Cancel the Spring' .......
In quarantine defiance, David Hockney's ' words resonate: 'They Can't Cancel the Spring' .......
STATEMENT
On the pandemic lock down in late March, like most humans of this world I felt helpless, shell shocked. Emotionally and physically trapped and tethered.
I had absolutely no control and for once there was no 'plan b'. ALL humans were affected. All of us had things in our lives cancelled. Life as we knew it was cancelled. We had no control.
As Artist David Hockney stated upon sending off a digital rendering of Daffodils from his Normandy lockdown location:
'Don't forget, They Can't Cancel The Spring'
Spring was defying the canceled plans. Spring lived as it always had. Spring wasn't cancelled!
This statement was profoud. I had control of something uncontollable. If I could interact with Spring, I could cope with lockdown.
Onwards in daily neighbourhood wanders, I picked bits of Spring and brought her into the studio where I observed and conversed quietly with charcoal and paint. Each painting was made in natural light and in one session. As I worked I beheld buds opening in the sun and petals folding as sunlight dimmed. These intimate interactions with Spring, with growth and resiliency, consider the healing wonders of our natural world. Throughout this project I took comfort in the daily ritual of making with my hands, when so much was out of my hands.
On the pandemic lock down in late March, like most humans of this world I felt helpless, shell shocked. Emotionally and physically trapped and tethered.
I had absolutely no control and for once there was no 'plan b'. ALL humans were affected. All of us had things in our lives cancelled. Life as we knew it was cancelled. We had no control.
As Artist David Hockney stated upon sending off a digital rendering of Daffodils from his Normandy lockdown location:
'Don't forget, They Can't Cancel The Spring'
Spring was defying the canceled plans. Spring lived as it always had. Spring wasn't cancelled!
This statement was profoud. I had control of something uncontollable. If I could interact with Spring, I could cope with lockdown.
Onwards in daily neighbourhood wanders, I picked bits of Spring and brought her into the studio where I observed and conversed quietly with charcoal and paint. Each painting was made in natural light and in one session. As I worked I beheld buds opening in the sun and petals folding as sunlight dimmed. These intimate interactions with Spring, with growth and resiliency, consider the healing wonders of our natural world. Throughout this project I took comfort in the daily ritual of making with my hands, when so much was out of my hands.
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Wayfaring
Ephemeral Graffitti
Children (& adults) need to be able to express how they/we are feeling about all of this. And reassurance that they are not alone in feelings of frustration, confusion, hope, loneliness, worry- and to be able to find ways of sharing their feelings.
Ephemeral graffiti is an alternative way to express thoughts and ideas by leaving messages and/or pictures on your driveway or front sidewalk with chalk or charcoal. Because it is outdoors, neighbours might happen upon messages on their restricted walks. It can be a safe and creative way of communicating with other neighbours. In using chalk or charcoal only, the rains make it ephemeral.