The Shape of Things to Come

In May 2020 I was invited by Anchorage-based artist John Coyne to participate in an exhibitionhe was curating, The Anthropocene. The pandemic was in its early days; the piece produced for the show was significantly political in scope, probably the most political work of art I’ve completed since the mid-1990s. Four drawings from the Pandemic Drawing series were combined into one piece. The format was was crucial, the four drawings all a reaction to the corona virus displayed as a “swastika”: The Shape of Things to Come (A bastardization of Nomran Rockwell’s Four Freedoms), a reference to both the pandemic but also the perceived worrying state of American politics.