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A mixed media collage depicting a healthcare worker with brown skin, wearing a COVID mask, blue surgical cap, blue surgical gown, and a dark blue stethoscope around their neck. On the front of the COVID mask is a colored pencil drawing of the face of a tan-skinned person, their features pulled into a smile. Overlapping the bottom of the worker’s surgical gown is a rectangular box with a colored pencil drawing of the top half of a dark-skinned person’s face, their eyes staring straight at the viewer. An abstract pattern fills the background in a neutral gray and brown, showing through the transparency of the rest of the collage and in small holes within the healthcare worker’s gown. The background breaks up angularly towards the top of the piece, turning white.
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COVID19: FIRST RESPONDERS: We’re In It Together 3

My series COVID19: FIRST RESPONDERS: We’re In It Together: supermarket stock clerk, truck driver, pulmonologist, respiratory specialist, xray technician celebrates our First Responders. Many of these heroic Essential Workers are African American, immigrants, Latinos, blue-collar workers and immigrants. Some lost their homes, lost their jobs or died from COVID19. These are the folks who are literally saved our lives and kept the country functioning, These are the sacrificial lambs for the wellbeing of our nation. The realities of COVID 19 is a demonstration of the appalling dynamics of class and racial inequity in our country. We witness how class, education and race are the factors that determine prosperity, good health, access to resources and wellbeing. The tragic lack of federal preparation, resources and agency coordination is yet another manifestation of cultural, racial, and class polarization, arrogance and lack of consideration for the citizenry.

These works were created from June 2020 through December 2021.I continue to develop imagery that responds to COVID19.