Five years ago, I had my first solo exhibition of collage work in this space. Altered Space opened on First Friday, March 6, 2020. One week later everything had changed. After a weekend out of town we prepared to settle in and hunker down... isolate... social distance. I didn’t know what to do with myself except make more art. I challenged myself to create one new piece of collage work a day to denote the passage of time. Like most of us, I incorrectly assumed that we’d be stuck at home for a few weeks, maybe a month or so. But days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months. On Day 52, I used a cut I had set aside during the first week to use on the last day. Months passed, 2020 became 2021, and I could feel the burnout creeping in as I kept creating, looking for an ending. Eventually, I decided that the only logical way to wrap everything up was to stop once everyone in the house was fully vaccinated. That was Day 467.

Postcards From Quarantine was born in the pandemic but continues to explore the same fictional and experimental universe first revealed in Altered Space. There are 49 works on the wall, or 10.5% of the series. I’d like to compile the whole series into a retrospective book. Someday, maybe. For now, this will have to do.