Housebound 2020

In March of 2020, like so many other people, I lost my job. I managed a small gallery in a non-profit organization for almost 10 years. Along with my work so many other things disappeared and just like that the life before the pandemic was gone. The new way of living made the house a center of my world. It also inspired a series of painting titled “Housebound”. My dining room table became my studio. The bedroom and my closet offered multitude of ideas. My newly retired “work” clothes became the subject of a number of paintings. They became symbols of a life put on pause. The shirts and skirts reminded me of empty butterfly cocoons. I started painting them because of the colors and patterns. The process of mixing colors, working on the patterns and constructing the painting was healing. The act of painting had a soothing effect and breaking down the work to its most basic elements of line, composition, shapes and colors made the process important.