Sketching the Pandemic Year 2020 Week 19 May3-9
We adapted to staying home and mostly making use of online grocery shopping with home delivery. One place we made periodic trips to was “Trader Joe’s”. Their adherence to health safety measures eased my anxiety a bit about going to the grocery store. Almost two months into the initial lockdown, for the first time I stood in line socially distanced and masked, waiting for my turn to enter the store. The shadows caught my eye and I quickly sketched the scene not knowing how long this routine was to last !
And the sketch ended up in the same week as the photo of the poster by Larry Yangzhou ‘Casina Jaiteca from the National Chicano Dcreenprint Taller’ in the Smithsonian Engagement Calendar 2020. There is a clever word play in the title. : “while casino is Spanish for kitchen, ‘jaiteca’ a neologism pronounced as’high-tech-a’ playfully highlighting the decidedly non high tech kitchen in the picture.”
Shoppers in Shadow ink and watercolor by Meera Rao
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