Bentley Chai

With the arrival of Covid-19, the global landscape was flipped upside down. There is nobody whose life is the same; businesses have stopped and people have been locked inside their own homes. It is almost as if for some people the calendars and clocks have stopped. What constitutes a life that is in motion? The act of living or the act of accomplishment. If we think of life as something in motion, it could be considered that the lives of the people who are stuck in quarantine and lockdown are still, frozen, and not truly alive. If we think of life as the act of accomplishment, people who have had their professional lives halted or rendered unable to complete meaningful work, and this makes me wonder about a still life as well.
As I continued to contemplate the theme, I began to look for symbols that could represent these ideas in my work and selected Calendar, which depicts a letterboard with the days of the week, that become illegible as the days go by.