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A 2-point perspective drawing of a cityscape drawn in shades of brown and black ink on white paper titled “Disconnect” in the lower left corner. From the bottom left to top right corners, a road lined with cracked sidewalks leads into a city. Where the road reaches the city, there is a “road closed” sign, and on the road beyond it stick figure people are biking and playing. Outside the city, on the left, are several vacant lots and a large hole in the ground. Inside the city are many large buildings covered in windows. Behind the city is a stone wall topped with barbed wire, and the binding of a sketchbook runs along the top of the page.
Image | 2020
Disconnect
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.
