This series was a response to our new lives during Covid 19. Made in 2020-2021, these portraits represent the new normal as the ridiculous and uneasy reality that it is. At first this all seemed so strange, and then slowly we adapted, and masks and plexiglass and gloves and barriers between us became the new normal. And we adapted. The bizarre and unheard of became commonplace and normal.
At first these portraits seem normal or beautiful, but then you notice something odd, or you get an uneasy feeling, or maybe you don’t at all because you’ve acclimated to it all. What lasting effects will all this separation have on us?
Through this work I am examining how all “normal” is a construct of our society, and how as humans we seek out beauty as a salve, even in the most ridiculous.
