Ode to Christo & other vibrant things

I started this piece during the height of COVID when New York City was putting corpses in refrigerated trucks outside their hospitals because the morgues were full. It was so sad, very dire, and very, very alarming.

I thought of an old friend of mine I no longer see who lives there and how scary it must’ve been. I thought about how both of us -- this old friend and I -- had really loved the artist Christo who characteristically once installed a huge series of orange fabric gates around New York's Central Park and who, unfortunately around this time of COVID, died at age 84.

The piece is a tribute to all the once vivid vibrancy of relationship and friendship, the colorful pioneering artistry of Christo, and life itself pre-COVID.

Ode to Christo | Mixed Media on paper | 12 x 18

Available in a simple black wood frame at Blue Moon Gallery.

Notes from Quarantine: I know New York has been through hell. I think of you always but never. Christo died today.