Item description
A pen drawing on a black background. A gray, metal, foldable chair sits in the middle of the piece. Text messages overlap the chair in a conversation. The message on the right reads “Such crazy times…any meetings still happening there?” on a gray text bubble with white bubble letters outlined in black. The response on the left: “Yep… no meetings here” and underneath that, “Zoom only” on a white text bubble with black lettering. The last message is on the right side, reading “Have you tried any of those yet?” on a gray text bubble with white bubble letters outlined in black. Next to the piece on the right is the name and the words “Moriah LeFebvre”, “Untitled”, “Ink drawing”, and “2020”.
Image | 2024
Works In Rough Going: Recovery Community and Communication During the Pandemic 1
Moriah LeFebvre
The drawings in this series contain words collected and curated from text message exchanges between members of the recovery community during the COVID-19 pandemic. I paired their messages with the images that these words evoked for me when I took the time to sit with them. Text messages are fleeting and digital; they aren’t meant to last. Yet during the pandemic, these pixels on screens became lifelines. I wanted to honor them, to memorialize them and commit them to permanence, deliberately and slowly. I hand drew all of the pieces in this series, sometimes taking the further step of using the sun to expose and create cyanotype prints of the drawn images.
