Statement for Artist Collective
Spartanburg, South Carolina:
Covid has certainly made every decision more urgent and uncertain especially for those of
us with the label “co-morbidity”. The isolation brought a lost autonomy that made working through these emotions in
my studio a necessity for me. Some testimony to the darker aspects of physical
and emotional barriers, confusion, and sadness of these days seemed important
to commit to paper. Each work finished in this series, now at six, shows one
contemplative aspect of this new reality that my normal life is not coming back
and that my strength is daily tested by the domination of illness and the loss
of my husband of 50 years. The stress of the “cures”, “monitoring”, and the
safety separation of “masking” are indeed as emotionally and physically
debilitating as the diseases. In a common historical way of expressing hope there is an obvious light source yet
the barrier aspect of each is dominant. Using emotional and symbolic color
seemed to be important for my stance taken in these drawings. Emergence from
this pandemic seems still to be an unstable ground but in
each drawing there are masks as the hint of human presence.
Linda
McCune, 2024
Lindawilliamsmccune.com