The collection of work in "Mortem|Renovamen: The Covid Diaries" is both an individual, emotional contemplation as well as a reflection of the national events inescapable within the Covid-19 pandemic. Each painting serves as a visual diary entry. Private contemplations regarding loneliness, grief & hope interchange with reflections of national events involving racial inequity, presidential obscenity, record unemployment, unprecedented effects of climate change, & debilitating uncertainty. The foundation of this collection of urban contemporary paintings is constructed from found street posters from San Francisco & Oakland. The found material serves as a time marker; many of the collected posters are a reflection of the awakening racial rage & inequality along with flyers of public events that dissipated as Covid overwhelmed.
