TMI

Art Is a Virus
This project started in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. In the past, the truly successful armageddons involved camera-ready imagery: hurtling comets, reanimated dinosaurs, glowing mushroom clouds, exoskeletal aliens with candy colored laser eyes.

As worldwide disasters go, COVID has been visually ungenerous. It has a cheap, crafty look to it, giving us blow-up pictures of germs: potato-shaped blobs wrapped in aluminum foil with pipe cleaners sticking out. 



Just like the start of our previous plagues, we didn't know how it was transmitted. We stayed home and quarantined and isolated and watched. We heard that particles could hang in the air for hours or cling to a wall for days. I decided to make art that does the same thing.