Dispersed Together: Art in a Time of Distance

Dispersed Together is a series of abstract mixed-media works created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These paintings explore this global crisis in various ways—how individuals were separated in their own communities, police brutality in America,  wide spread grief and loss, and more. 

Through layers of paint, graphite, and collaged drawings, each work captures the disorientation and the profound emotional impact of that period. Fragmented structures dissolve into gestures, emotional atmospheres, unfinished and distorted human figures, and traces of inner feelings—evoking the blurred boundaries between safety and exposure, the private and the public, and the body and its environment.

The series explores how aesthetic experience serves as a form of emotional processing, based on my subjective experience of the pandemic—hearing stories about loved ones, the sick, periods of intense grief and anxiety, personal loss, and communities and individuals who were profoundly affected by both the pandemic and police brutality. 

These works serve both as autobiographical documents and collective reflections—visual meditations on how art can hold and contain the weight of crisis.