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Shelter in Place
Drawing # 1

At the beginning of the pandemic our focus was on keeping the curve down by sheltering in place, that is when I began this drawing. My work as a carpenter along with Nature’s patterning influence my visual language. Permanent ink creates permanent fluctuations in every line, documenting my breath, heartbeat, mood, and state of mind, like a seismograph. Consistency of tools has been very important to my process, Micron pens and Canson 90 pound paper. This drawing starts at the bottom with a free hand straight line, with two downward line divots in the middle of three open gaps, in each of the individual horizontal lines. As I drew the divot lines quickly grew into two sharp curves on each side of the widening center gap. The center gap represents an opening to the growing pandemic situation in the middle of two steep curves of rising infection rates and death.

Chris Whitefield

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