THE BIG PAUSE

The pandemic of 2020, or the “Big Pause” engendered a solitude for me, rather than isolation, and more time for nature. I walked every day in local parks and woods and took hundreds of photographs with my smart phone and DSLR camera. The skies were clear and nature was flourishing while all other norms were disintegrating in a surreal time. There was more time to observe the minutia of daily life; little vignettes of nature, and quirky artifacts of modern life left in the landscape; I combined these in digital collages that also bend a sense of what is real.

Several of the images were part of a group show at 6 Bridges Gallery in Maynard, MA, titled “Anthropause, ”  an appropriate term coined by naturalist and writer Michael McCarthy to describe the dramatic interruption of human activity during the pandemic lockdowns. https://6bridges.gallery/anthropause-exhibit/