Pretty In Pink @ Gray Loft Gallery

Jurors: Ann Jastrab and Jan Watten

I will have one image in the Pretty In Pink exhibition at Gray Loft Gallery in Oakland. As part of my 6 Feet Apart series, I have a new exploration that takes these images of sidewalk COVID marks and transforms them into unique objects. I call these Artifacts: they are prints of my images that were placed on the sidewalk outdoors for a month or two during my exhibition last March. The images became faded, scratched, stained and torn. Now they are framed: protecting and commemorating the time they represent. They were taken from the sidewalk, put back there and then taken again — making a full circle. They stand as a metaphor for the pandemic and how it has changed us.