I struggle with how best to respond. Do I hoard disinfectants and toilet paper? Do I despair because the economy has very suddenly become soft and cause for despair? How do I find comfort when dinners with friends are being canceled and we are encouraged to distance ourselves from one another?
These could be lonely times.
I have little to offer in this time of uncertainty, but I know that I take comfort in making art. This Mail Art Project is my effort to capture the moment and document the circumstance. We are vulnerable to a virus with unknown powers and asked to distance ourselves from one another. Yet there is beauty in the world and wonder all around us. Making art and creating this Mail Art Project brings me unexpected joy in this moment that could otherwise be filled with panic and despair. It is a meditation on what it means to live in this moment.
May we know comfort and find connection in these days filled with uncertainty and a call to physically distance ourselves from one another.
