Description
Alexandra Robinson | Each Pillow 8″ x 14″ | pile of pillows 40″ x 40″
cyanotype on cotton muslin and pink patterned cotton, pink satin, pinto beans and dismembered stuffed animals
The pandemic was emotionally difficult and challenging because we were always on top of one another; there was no physical space and therefore mental space felt collapsed. My children’s worlds became small and sometimes too compressed for their big emotions. Time is still long and deep but not in the way the first five – six months of the pandemic felt. Now it’s pockmarked with hope, things don’t feel as desperate, only now we face the fear of what it means to come back out into the light without masks. I wonder when the kids will play and feel with abandon like they used to. This work titled Fortification, is created using cyanotype and forms inspired by my children; toys, sounds and pillows for movies, and fighting and care.
