Pandemic Art

"We are all in this together", colour pencils, sumi ink on paper, 20 x 20", 2021

「運命共同体」色鉛筆 墨 紙 50 x 50 cm 令和3年

これを描き始めたのは、９月の半ば。学校も習い事も始まって、普段の忙しい生活がまた始まった頃。次第に感染者も増え出して、１０月ごろには医療機関もパンクして、州に軍隊まで応援にくることになる少し前で、ワクチン接種を拒む人がいることが納得いかなかった頃。

I started to draw this in mid-September. It was around the time it got busier again when kids went back to school and extracurricular activities. It was just before the COVID-19 cases started rise again and ended up getting support form Army in October. It was hard for me to understand why some still refuse to get vaccinated.

作業中の机の上。散らかってますね笑　墨で適当に雲を塗るのは楽しかった。塗るだけだと重すぎたので、ティッシュで拭き取ってモクモク感を出しました。

My messy desk. It was fun painting with Sumi ink. Sumi ink was too heavy, so I wiped them off with Kleenex paper to draw clouds.