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kescows an bys (the earth talks) 6: Love in the Time of Coronavirus 2020

We have all been affected by the global Covid-19 pandemic. Whether this has been through changes to our lifestyle, our jobs and financial circumstances, our health (both physical and emotional), through loss (of loved ones or strangers) or to the highly visceral environmental ramifications lockdown has had, we have experienced something deeply transformational.

Personally, I have been safe and well in this relatively sparsely populated coastal area of southwest England and have taken full advantage of the space to respond creatively to the “unprecedented” situation. I have got to know the transient beauty of Nature around my home more deeply through walking and cycling regularly, while also keeping up to date with the ever shifting existential global drama through media coverage.

This body of work, primarily painted and drawn using local Cornish earth pigments on a variety of salvaged, found and repurposed surfaces, is just part of my creative output during this time. The pieces represent intuitive conversations between myself, the materials and the uncertainty manifested by the ongoing global and local situation…

001 earth rainbow arcobaleno di terra (Cornish-earth pigments on paper; 28x31cm)
002 care for the elderly (Cornish earth pigments on salvaged card; 41x55cm)
003 becoming animal (Cornish earth pigments on salvaged card; 41x55cm)
004 the joy of sex (Cornish earth pigments on salvaged card; 55x41cm)
005 exercising caution (Cornish earth pigments on salvaged card; 55x41cm)
006 big yellow cat (Cornish earth pigments on salvaged card; 55x41cm)
007 turkey spirit - acts beyond self (graphite on paper; 21x30cm)
008 belonging to nobody but the stars, an earth healing (Cornish earth pigments on salvaged card; 55x41cm)
009 nineteen crows (corvid-19)(Cornish earth pigments on salvaged card; 55x41cm)
010 I hear birdsong as I sing song (Cornish earth pigments on salvaged card; 55x41cm)
011 the time to do things right (Cornish earth pigments on salvaged card; 55x41cm)
012 physical distance, social grace (Cornish earth pigments on salvaged card; 72x72cm)
013 we have every reason to be angry (Cornish earth pigments on salvaged card; 75x53cm)
014 big bare hug (Cornish earth pigments on salvaged card; 55x41cm)
015 all is quiet (Cornish earth pigments on salvaged card; 55x41cm)
016 creatively confined (Cornish earth pigments on salvaged card; 53x75cm)

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