ceramic and metal $2200
“When Covid-19 began, we thought it was just another something to give us concern
during the flu season. And then it was ignored, denied, minimized, and politicized.
In spite of absurd comments about miracles, magical disappearances, hoaxes,
and distractions, the reality crept on and on. Hit by the death of hundreds,
then thousands, then tens of thousands, and now, hundreds of thousands,
we knew eventually, if we were to survive, we had to work together.
Then came an expectation for national leadership, guidance, a plan,
a response from on high that would provide help, equipment, financing, expertise.
Instead the responsibility was dumped into the laps of anyone else who
was seeking help, creating a clawing scratching competition.
There was a nightmare free for all. We wanted to represent that frustration, masks and all.
In creating this artwork, we wanted to interpret a “masking” of the virus.
Let us work together, each giving their all, tackle this virus, and put it under lock and key.
If each of us doesn’t do their part, who will? Together, as one, we will reign this in.
Don Smith and I created the concepts, he created the iron and welding, and I did the ceramics.”
