Modern Day Warefare
Acrylic on stretched canvas
This series is a collection of painted portraits inspired by the current Covid-19 pandemic in juxtaposition of the 1960’s Cold War era. Each work was inspired by ordinary, everyday photographs taken during this period of time.
During the first year of the worldwide pandemic, there were a lot of comparisons of deja vu, that somehow we have experienced this before. Some experts even pointed out another pandemic, H3N2 influenza, during the Cold War that have eerily similarities to one another. But the difference was that nobody wore face masks, schools weren’t shut down, and life went on as normal.
The clothing was even inspired by the different hidden meanings of healing and dealing with the virus itself. They are not sealed with glass in design as the masks were to be placed over in more of a fashionable state, there is no glass or actual protection of the masks themselves in response to the mass production of fashionable masks.