Art in the Time of Corona - One of Those Days

There were nine pages of obituaries in the paper today.

And it's a beautiful, sunny day and my world has grown small and close to home - but I have not yet lost a close friend or family member to this pandemic.

And yet - Nine pages of names, some pictures, descriptions of lives lived and now cut short.

Some days I don't quite know how to carry the beauty and the heartache all at the same time.

This is one of those days...

"Of These No Elegy"
Mixed media with stones and shattered glass on carved wood.

K. Daphnae Koop