Coronavirus Response #2

What is Time Right Now?

13"x6"

Digital

The story behind this drawing is how time is starting to "erode" with a lack of routine. The most obvious representation of this is the clocks. There are 5 total, and all of the numbers on them are nonsense. The numbers aren't in order, between 1 and 12, or even all "real" numbers. The 2020 planner is lying abandoned on the shelf covered in question marks. 2 hourglasses are shown only part way done, which represents how long experts are suggesting quarantine will need to last. There is a to do list with one item: "bake bread???", which is one of the random things people have started doing with all of their extra time. Although looking at it now, I'm realizing that the mask is cut off weirdly, there is a mask behind the hourglass. There are also sticky notes showing doodles of infinity, coronavirus, and the flattening the curve diagram. There are also books on the shelf, representing how people have been doing more reading in quarantine (I've read 4.5 books so far), which are titled "infinity" and "isolation."

I made this using my standard brush in procreate.

I used dull colors instead of my normal saturated colors to emphasise how quarantine has changed our perception of common spaces. I contrasted the bookshelf with the stark white wall to add a sense of emptiness to a cluttered space, and I used it to break the space up. This piece started as just the empty inside of a bookshelf, then I added multiple layers of clutter, then I added the white wall and clock. Going forward, I'm going to clean up the lines on the glass and finish the mask, which got cut off when I added in the larger hourglass. Also, I'm going to adjust the hourglasses so they don't look exactly the same.