As a professional artist, I recently carried out a large commission for Harvard Medical School in collaboration with my scientist husband during the coronavirus pandemic, often with our children at home in the next room.
These three large, mixed-media abstract paintings were not created in optimal circumstances or settings — but I surrendered that and let the creative process do its thing. It’s a project I wanted to return to again and again over many months. It both anchored and re-launched me as a working artist. I even got to image Sars-CoV-2 (also known known as COVID-19) while living with it!
Needless to say, it was cathartic.