Art subject matter and COVID / by Helen Hajnoczky

Reading that social distancing is likely to go on for months I find my myself considering which art projects I want to work on over that time. I have a project called The Winter Garden which is apocalyptic, and some others that deal with the grief of loosing my dad. Otherwise my stuff’s all over the place—flowers, an odd novel, paintings, animals, personal experiences… I wonder—will I want to work on things that are really in the nose, or will that make it harder? And what will people feel they want to read or see—something completely different or something dealing with this experience? I just don’t know. Probably a bit of both I guess.