Item description
A pen drawing on a blue, cyanotype-printed background. At the bottom center are two mugs, one a standard, coffee mug shape and the other rounder and wider. The coffee mug is white and filled with a deep blue color while the round mug is white and filled with a lighter blue color, a tea bag floating within it. Above the mugs are text messages, beginning on the right side, reading “I think I may have had the worst dream of my life”, “One of them for sure”, and “I have to tell someone about it”, the messages falling beneath the first one with blue text bubbles and white bubble lettering outlined in black. To the left is the single message “Tell me” in a white text bubble and blue bubble lettering 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 2
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.
