Artist Statement: The universiality of the pandemic and its effect on every person on earth is the center of this series called “Distanced”. The challenge of living our lives separate from the ones important to us can rob us from our very humanity. “Distanced” chronicles that journey, commenting through paint one artist experience dealing and observing with this unprecedented reality. Apart from my more realist discipline, this subject demanded an abstract attitude on my part to get to the surreal nature of what we all are experiencing as human beings