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An ink and watercolor painting titled “Sidney’s Happy Birthday Cake”. With a city skyline in the background, a bald man with stubble on his face is sitting on a brown bench surrounded by greenery. He is wearing a yellow jacket, a tie, polka-dot white shorts, and is clutching a pink cake. The cake is oozing onto his left hand, which is holding the side of the cake, while his right hand rests on top of the cake.
Image | 2020
Sidney's Happy Birthday Cake
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.
