Sketching the Pandemic year 2020 February 23-29 week 9
Something about the colorful cables running on the long red brick wall, the green door, the train tracks and a warning on the platform to ‘mind the gap’ grabbed my attention at the Paddington station, London. We were on our way back from a short trip to Bath. Little did we know then how lucky we were to not have encountered the virus !!! And that it was to be the last of a holiday trip for quite sometime to come! I have photos of old fashioned pharmacy shop windows in Bath with handwritten signs that said ‘Face masks hand gels/wipes Forehead thermometers in stock’. I puzzled over the signs as I captured them with my camera. Those words were not yet in our everyday vocabulary! There were even a few tourists wearing masks in Bath. But we were oblivious/ignorant of the pandemic in the making!
The Lamina wallpaper in the Smithsonian Engagement 2020 is designed and produced by Assemblage, Witter, Arkansas and is at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. It is made by hand applied marble dust, mica plaster, gold leaf and waterborne resin. The museum website describes it as : “Lamina is dark and dramatic with horizontal lines with bold metallic stripes, creating a nice contrast between the dark indigo and metal leaf. Sporadic bands of mica and resin add a subtle sheen.’ I feel the industrial looking wall is a work of art itself - a tribute to ingenuity of man and science and has paired well with the photo on the opposite page!
Mind the Gap February 23-29 watercolor and ink by Meera Rao
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