To keep myself making art during the pandemic lockdown, I recorded a daily photo journal. Being confined to a single location for many months challenged me to find a fresh photo every day. Seeking light in a dark time, I followed sun patterns streaming into my house, flowing, shifting, and morphing with the changing weather.
With light as the subject, I tracked the sun’s progression around the house as the seasons crept around the wheel of the year. Each day image was subtly different. It became a personal solar clock, like living in a sun dial on nature’s hours.
One morning I walked into a light reflection and was shocked to see my messy pandemic house hair silhouette. But that image was the truth of the day and the times, so I positioned my shadow to merge with the bright shapes, playing with the glowing light panels and crowns.
Pandemic Self is a composite photo of dazzling light shapes with my gray silhouette, expressing my feeling of living in endless monotone time. Yet even in the monotonous everyday of confinement and anxiety, there were delicate moments of discovery, wonder and delight, resilient gifts of hope when we open our eyes and hearts and minds to see, respond, and play.
From Light Play, a daily pandemic lockdown photo journal.
