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This canvas was made slowly for about 8 months of 2019 leading up to the Covid Pandemic.

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As I started to share the image; viewers started to comment that it almost looked cellular -- viral --

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The images portrayed of the Covid Virus had little nubs sticking out of the round green blob.

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I named it 'Virus' at first.

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As the pandemic progressed I changed the name to 'Portal'

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To me, 2020 warped time as if it was pulling us through a black hole.

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Portal hung on different walls in my house for most of 2020 and 2021.

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I started to have a strange feeling about it (distaste) halfway through 2021.

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Then around October I went through a really chaotic period of time.

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I felt scattered.

 

My life was split between two cities and I was having trouble grounding.

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One afternoon, I took a look at the painting, grabbed it off the wall and from there, it truly became a subconscious expression of getting through a fragmented and dis-regulated pocket of time.

 

There are a lot of layers in this for me but I enjoy hearing the ways in which it lands with the viewer and so I will keep the rest of the process and meaning to myself so as to allow room for your interpretation.

I hope you enjoy.