Item description
A blue pen drawing on a white background. To the top left is a text message in a white text bubble and black lettering, reading “God I can’t wait to see your masked face”. Above the top right corner of the message is a small white heart within a circular blue bubble from the receiver. Beneath the messages and to the right side is a foldable lawn chair, unfolded for someone to sit on. Next to the piece on the right are the words “Moriah LeFebvre”, “Untitled”, “Ink drawing”, and “2020”.
Image | 2024
Works In Rough Going: Recovery Community and Communication During the Pandemic 10
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.
