Bed 1/30/22

In my two and a half decades of creating art, I have moved from drawing and pastels to painting and three-dimensional art. My work is almost always about the portrait and the human figure. The body is often absent as it is in these three pen and ink drawings. For twenty-four days, I made quick sketches of the bed I share with my husband.

Bed has been a comfort and refuge for three pandemic winters. Its fluffy soft fabrics and feathers are a luxury. No matter how disorienting and confining the days have been, bedtime is always restorative.

Home and family are the comforts that carry me through these times. The discomfiting thought of people nearby who have no bed and no home to retreat to is always with me. I try to be generous in my community, but it can never be enough.