Title: Maskage
Year: 2020
Size: 60× 38 inches
Medium: Oil on canvas
The painting is “mask-age” each semi-circle is symbolic of the shape of mask and also represents globe the various phases ,emotions and events the people traversed across 2020 commencing with the first circle left side bottom Christmas / Chinese new Year where the contagion commenced.. The faces is human to human transmission as well as connections lost due to social distancing and isolation.. The yellow circle left top is health care depicted by cross and frontline workers across the globe .. The buildings are people confined to work with lighted windows. Depicting the ritual of candles people lighted in hope .the next circle is Wi-Fi symbol total dependence on Wi-Fi world even now revolves around work to education to shopping the next is the ship it is drifting feeling of non-ending emotions pandemic fatigue mental Fog .. Buddha is mindfulness.. The red yellow globe is laptops /web series that took over the lives ... next globe is the birds and nature recuperating and healing the other circle the last one is ray of hope with rays being vaccines