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Six white PVC pipes with various colors of yarn wrapped around them laid out next to each other in a line on a gray surface. The yarn is wrapped tightly next to each other with varying amounts of space between the different colors. The top pipe has yarn in shades of gray and yellow, the next is shades of gray and green with hints of yellow. The next is purple and gray with hints of orange, and the next is shades of gray also with hints of orange. The bottom pipe is shades of gray, white and black. The lines of yarn around the pipes are all of varying thickness.
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Rethinking Mondrian 3

Annie Bilder

While visiting Florida in January, 2020, I saw a piece of art that intrigued me. I flew back to California on February 3. Three people in seats adjacent to mine coughed for the next 6 hours. Three days later, I became very ill and was diagnosed with 2 lung infections. Only hospital in patients were being tested for Covid and my doctors wanted to keep me as far from the hospital as possible. Many times over the next many months, both my sister and I feared that I was dying.

The art I had seen in Florida kept returning to me. With the little energy I had, some PVC pipes in my garage and yarns scraps, I began to experiment. It was extremely satisfying and gave me something to look forward to. Family and friends began to mail me old yarn. Looking at the the array of colors and completed pipes I began to amass brought me great joy.

Twenty seven months later, I am still not the woman who set foot on that airplane (cough, cough) but I do have a house full of colorful pieces that in addition to doctors and drugs, helped save my life.