Item description
A black and white drawing of a large doll in a cluttered room. The room is three-dimensional, narrowing to a back wall, and the doll is sitting towards the front, next to a door. The doll is wearing a flowered shirt and polka-dot underwear. Its left arm is dislocated and lying on the floor in front of its legs. On the right wall is a poster of the doll with partially visible text; the top says what might be “every girl wants a” and the bottom says “fully” in small text above a word that begins with “articul”. There is a box of toys on a shelf in the background. The binding of a sketchbook lines the right edge.
Image | 2020
In the Attic
R.C. Barajas
I admit to feeling a certain amount of guilt about how creatively productive I have been during this pandemic. Most certainly a defense mechanism or survival instinct or a desperate need of a shell into which I could shield my hermit crab self, I found the external restrictions permitted an internal freedom to explore.
There was not a moment in creating these things in which the pandemic did not factor. The mere fact that I had the time and drive to do them was in response to the pandemic, its horror for so many, its legacy. In looking back at this work, there will always be an asterisk in my mind regarding their genesis, their backstory.
