Everyone I know is anxious. We all are remembering the trauma of 2016. These past four years have been so damaging. We knew. Right away we said something needed to be done as the stakes were too high. Normal democratic processes were not going to succeed in removing a narcissistic tyrant. And with the world teetering on disaster due to our current climate emergency we simply did not have four years to wait it out. And sadly our worst fears have come true. I look to the future and I can not get past the ballot box. And so that is brings me to this week’s current work. I hope the visual says it all. I know not everyone can see or understand the imagery. It is interesting that the mirror with the eye glasses looks like the moon and we found water on the moon this week.
**An addition to this blog entry. As mentioned earlier this series was not a series of drawings my spouse enjoyed. And for the most part I was happy to be done with it. But last week (It is now December 6) I was reading the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s fall Bulletin, which contained a collection of essays by those employed by the museum about Art and this moment in history. There was a piece in there by the curator in charge of European Miniatures. Many miniatures were created in Elizabethan England. Elizabethan’s had to contend with the plague and loss and separation from loved ones. These miniatures were all the rage and a bit like mini-instagrams used to stay connected. Elizabethans even believed they could talk. I thought about how putting my face in the mirror was reminiscent of a locket/miniature from that time.
