Reflections in the Visual Arts
Danny Long, Comedy Writing, PWR, Spring 2020
Kaleigh Cornell
Covid-19: an Inside Look
May 1, 2020
Kaleigh Cornell, a senior majoring in Anthropology and minoring in Geology, Education, Leadership, and Classics highlights the lack of testing and its impact on family. Cornell writes: 'so I probably have COVID.'
Benjamin Holubiak
Empty
May 2, 2020
Benjamin Holubiak, Spring 2020 graduate Integrative Physiology, captures the emptiness of campus in the spring. He writes: 'I wanted to capture the contrast that quarantine and COVID-19 has created between the lives we knew, and the ones we are living now. I went around campus and created three sketches of familiar places, and added some text over in PowerPoint. I picture it as a particularly somber Sunday paper cartoon, one that would make a reader take a moment to reflect on things. It consists of five panes, three of which I painted with a drawing application.'
Danny Long, Radical Science Writing, PWR, Spring and Fall, 2020
Sara Ingram
Stay at Home, Save a Life
April 15, 2020
Sara Ingram's photo-collage reflects the all too familiar images of 2020. Masks and social distancing and admonitions such as: 'Stay at Home, Save a Life,' 'made w/love & gloves,' 'FOR YOUR SAFETY AND OURS,' and 'On a zoom call' gently remind us of the year's challenges.
Chad Wireman
Covid-19 Reflection
April 21, 2020
Computer Science major with a minor in Technology, Arts, & Media, Chad Wireman, writes: 'On a psychological level, it's been tough adjusting to the stay at home order ... I am a computer science major, so it could be said that I am partial to the indoors, but I enjoy the freedom of making that choice. Communication is also tough. Interacting online is nothing new for me personally, but using it exclusively is difficult for anyone in 2020. The mechanisms for quality interactions online are not quite in place yet. It's been a long few weeks of classes with low quality microphone and video calls. Such a dramatic event will leave last impacts on society. Perhaps demand for online communication will increase even after COVID-19 vaccine is found.'
Luke Meyer
Martin Park, Boulder
April 29, 2020
Luke Meyer reflects: 'Walking around in public spaces is completely different. Everybody is slow and careful. Personal space is never intruded because we had been told to maintain a social distance. People now wear masks anywhere in public. Literally every person has a face mask. And the public has become something out of a movie ... Life has really hit a slow spot and with the weather getting nicer people really want to go out and do things. I am ready for summer and playing out in the Colorado sun all summer. I am not sure if this is going to be a reality though. Things will reopon but it will not be a reality though. Things will reopen but it will not be like before, nothing will.'
Hannah M. Sherwood
Final Thoughts About COVID-19 As The Semester Comes To An End
Friday, 1 May 2020
CU Boulder Aerospace and Electrical Engineering major Hannah Sherwood reflects on the end of spring semester and on her return to her home in Three Rivers, California, with its closed Reimer's Candy Shop seen to the left. Hannah Sherwood writes: 'I still had summer vacations, crew races, and everyday events in my eyes. For us on the crew team, everything came to a halt within a few days ... There are things I'm sad about. Last weekend I was supposed to be in Sacrament for a race. In a month I'm supposed to be in Georgia for nationals. I'm supposed to be getting up every morning at 0400 to be on Boulder Reservoir at 0500 for practice. I'm supposed to be working in a lab or getting an internship this summer ... '
Brittany Mills
COVID as Told by a Healthcare Worker’s Skin
December 9, 2020
Brittany Mills writes: 'This is a self-portrait but it’s also a portrait of all my fellow EMTs, CNAs, and nurses on the front line wearing dirty masks because that’s all that is available. I work as an EMT specifically in at-risk populations and in the beginning of the pandemic we had very limited protective equipment; not only did the more essential healthcare workers get priority, but no one knew how long or how devastating the pandemic would be so everything was rationed. I’ve been wearing the same N95 mask for two weeks now and my skin is currently atrocious because of it… but it tells a story. Every mark from the too-tight elastic, every pimple from the constant sweating, every eye-bag from a long shift might mean a life way saved.'