I realize I have stopped writing altogether in my new blog and working on my website that I had to have a different kind of blog on it. So I’m starting another 100 days, maybe 101 days of writing every day; I prefer odd numbers. Anyway, I’ve been struck by a weird nostalgia around two years ago being locked in the house working in a closet during the “plague”, while the death rates in NYC were highest, and every day there was. a briefing from the mayor and governor and the same person sign language translator.
Also at the start of the pandemic I actually was able to write daily in the blog.
Why would I have any nostalgia for a terrible time and the worst death toll on the planet I think and a time when we had no idea how long Covid would last, etc. I guess this two year anniversary has had a weird effect on me. I’m trying out some of the art techniques I used them and similar images but it’s looking back not forward.
It was partly the weird routine in the apartment of working all day in a weird closet where I’d also eat lunch and make art. Then in the evening going out on the fire escape to bang on a drum or shake a Tamborine to make noise for the front line workers. In the first part, we’d sit and watch Schittz Creek every night together. I had to catch up to reach the current episode, whatever it was. I even saw a weird connection where this family is forced out of their house, their fortune gone and having to live in the town they owned that was a foreign country to them. It had nothing to do with what we were going through but there were parallels about not having control, having your life uprooted; in one case kicked out of the home and forced to make a new very different one, as well as the family becoming closer and the boredom that arises. Anyway it was fun to watch something completely different from the current world and laugh a lot.
I’ll take the regularity and better keeping of habits like blogging daily and working out which I didn’t start til months later. And continuing Telehealth for most clients.
Here is a picture of a drawing I made recently. Don’t know if it finished. I posted a lot of similar ones in the spring of 2020.
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