The Ark 2020, Pandemic

During the pandemic we all waited and wondered when we would be let off the ark. When it came to thinking of your existence in a closed home you are faced with what do with time. I thought of Noah's Ark story. I enjoy painting animals and I decided which I would want in my ark. I put one of each animal in the painting based on the compositional Fibonacci sequence I have been celebrating. The meaning of the Fibonacci and time was important and time was also presented by the moon cycles. We watched the moon phases go way past "two weeks to stop the spread". Sitting with my dad many days was relaxing because he who was at D-day in WWII said it would end and we would be OK. Artists could stay in our Studios without having to worry about going to work and our groceries would come to the door. Painting got me through the idea of details of small and large and I knew this painting needed to be large. Small drawings could be contained in the space of the squared off earth colored canvas that was in numbers of that Fibonacci sequence also. The added Labyrinth of clay, made early my career, brought some time. It is fired terra cotta and painted it to act as a tablet of sorts- like a Noah Ark who have had to have Moses tablet in the ark. I had my family and belief and would have the outside world through the internet and television, but the idea of the labyrinth and a maze went with the whole pandemic and feelings of that time