Item description
A pen drawing on a white background. A gray hammer with a black handle emerges from the right side and rests upwards on its circular face. The hammer creates a skinny, black shadow on the surface it rests on. Above the hammer to the left is a text message that reads “My god it’s ground hog day. But the unfunny version.” In a white text bubble outlined in black and black lettering. Underneath the piece 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 4
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.
