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Art Under Corona

Art Under Corona

Art Under Corona

March 2020. We were told to go home and stay. The City of Chicago was in lockdown.

Nobody knew what that meant or how long it would last. I have a lot of self-care techniques

but I found the isolation challenging. Words didn’t come easily, but paintings

flowed out of me. 2020-2021, I painted 50+ paintings. The paintings became my medicine

and my companions. 

Art helps people get through difficult times. Art is work. Art is joyful.

Art distracts and also helps focus and blooms creativity, which helps us feel more alive.

Art Under Corona tells the story of the lockdown of 2020 through paintings.

The images came in dreams and meditations. One painting led to another. 

Themes of confusion, isolation, grief, protection, loneliness, community, hope,

celebration, new beginnings, letting go, friendship, and Love became more clear. 

Can you relate?

Feel free to reach out to me to share your artwork from the Lockdown of 2020  at

evebrownstone@gmail.com. Lots of love. Eve

The Guardian 

at the Gate

This mighty bird protects. He fights with love and science. 

Thank you, scientists, doctors, nurses, parents, teachers and therapists,

Mariano’s cashiers, bus drivers, farmers, and many more.

Invaders/ AKA

Covid 19

.

The Invaders come at night in a cough or a hug. We stay inside.

Hospitals. Ventilators. Goodbye on facetime. Too much death.

Too much politics.

 Walls: Protection

Doing the right thing!

Lockdown. Behind the walls. Tall buildings. Masks. 

Alone. Not alone. Zoom birthday and zoom Christmas.

When will it end?

Community

Families speak to each other across the world. 

The lucky ones work from home.

Zooming.

Book of Life

Masks. Social distance. Vaccines.

Doing the right thing for a year and a half.

Shaking the Purse

Shaking out the purse. Shaking out all my ideas, thoughts,

feelings, and old patterns...letting go.

Get Away

Longing to get away but can’t leave. Lucky to still be here.

Celebration/Confusion

Lockdown is lifted. Masks off. Eating in restaurants. Celebration.

Delta. Herd Immunity, no. Not fast enough. Political. Mask up again.

Confusion. 

What is going on?

We Need Each 

Other.

This I know is true. Science heals and we need each other. 

Love and get vaccinated.

Buildings and Windows

Many Doors

Buildings and Windows

by

Eve Brownstone

2022

March 2020. We were told to go home and stay. The City of Chicago was in lockdown. Nobody knew what that meant or how long it would last. I have a lot of self-care techniques but I found the isolation challenging. Words didn’t come easily, but paintings flowed out of me. 2020-2022, I painted 100+ paintings. 

The paintings became my medicine and my companions. Art helps people get through difficult times. Art is work. Art is joyful. Art distracts and also helps focus and blooms creativity, which helps us feel more alive. Art Under Corona tells the story of the lockdown of 2020 through paintings. The images came in dreams and meditations. 

One painting led to another. Themes of confusion, isolation, grief, protection, loneliness, community, hope, celebration, new beginnings, letting go, friendship, and Love became more clear. Can you relate? 

Buildings and Windows

The following paintings came to me early in the pandemic Spring of 2020, when I was spending way too much time by myself looking out the window. Building and roads and windows were prominent, not people. Where were all the people? Missed humans very much....some.

 Don't Know

Go Home. 

How long is this supposed to last? 

Forever. Don't know

How am I supposed to do this?

Hunker down. 

Don't know.

Where a mask.

Look out your window.

Zoom.

 Don't know.

Keep your distance.

Okay.

Feeling lonely.

Need a dog.

Don't know.

Get vaccinated.

Better now?

Don't know.

This and That

Keep busy doing this and that.

Working. Keep working.

Lucky.

Zooming.

Helping clients and paying my bills.

Looking out the window.

"Hello, neighbors."

Waving. We are waving to each other.

Painting. 

Creating this and that with acrylic paint on a shiny new canvas.

I can create my own friends with paint and I do.

Keeping me saner.

Thank you, Eve!

Helping Out

I help out.

I am a psychotherapist.

On the front lines of mental health.

Mental Health Matters.

Kindness and listening. 

Tears.

How has this week been treating you?

I see you.

How can I help?

Anger, anxiety and grief.

Collective storm.

800.000+

I can't always be strong.

I can't always listen.

Human.

I did everything right for 2+ years

Still got sick. Omicron.

Home

Wrote this before the Pandemic of 2020

Still believe this.

 

What makes a home? Is it the brick, cement, metal and wood that create a home? It is what the heart knows, connections between loved ones, the feeling of being held with love and safety. It is the feeling of being seen as good enough and encouraged to go for what you want, even if it involves leaving home to make your dreams come true. As you make your journey into this unknown adventure, you find that your home is still with you in your heart. It says to you, “We are with you, you are safe and you can do this.” Your sense of home is reflected in the way you say “hello”, help out a friend, and stand up for yourself. A home is also a place you may return to again and again. You are welcomed with open arms.

I missed my friends and family very much during the lockdown.

No hugging was very hard.

A year of zoom meetings with our 82-year-old father.

Birthdays

Christmas

Easter

Birthdays

Christmas

Easter

Closing

Finding a new normal in all of this. Masks, social distance and vaccinations.

We are all tired. Isolation is real.

Creating these paintings has been my medicine and has made it possible for to be there for others. I am thankful. 

Covid 19i isn't over yet. Find a creative outlet such as painting, journaling, dance parties, singing out loud, baking bread, coloring color books, knitting a scarf.....something that gets you into the flow of the creative process.

Make some room for joy and kindness.

Love

Eve

 

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