In March 2020 when the pandemic started in NYC and schools shut down and workers went fully remote, my family and I left Brooklyn and relocated temporarily to my husband’s family home in a small town in the mountains of West Virginia. I had not been out of NYC for this long temporarily in over 20 years. In West Virginia we figured out that I could set up a studio in a basement space. I was thrilled to have dedicated space to paint with a window. There are two old pinball machines down there with me. Super cool to look at. The feel of the green spring forest, creatures like hawks and deer, and the mountains and fresh mountain air outside combined with this basement space filled with interested vintage things and the dreaded uprooted feeling of the pandemic and political climate at the time fueled a lot of my work.
