%C2%A9 Piotr Szyhalski %2F Labor Camp
September 26, 2020: Uncontained, 9/26/2020
Piotr Szyhalski / Labor Campexpand_more
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Gift of funds from Mary and Bob Merskyexpand_more 2021.1.187
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This artwork is part of the series COVID-19: Labor Camp Report.
Artist's statement on this artwork originally published on the @laborcamp Instagram account:
Taking a moment today to acknowledge the crazy amount of time that had passed since it all began. This week marked half a year since I started making these drawings every day. 6 months, and just about everything feels out of control. Uncontained. Maybe uncontainable. And also hair.
P.S.
I am not sure how this came about, but when thinking about the lockdown duration, I got this image in my head: a figure lost in, or swallowed by the wild, swirling hair that becomes this dark torrent. I guess for many of us, the uncut hair became a tangible measure of the flow of time. For me, all days became somewhat similar. I certainly lost the sense of weekdays or weekends.
Perhaps time did become the tangle of a thousand strands' An all enveloping braid. When I started on this series, I cracked open a fresh packet of coffee filters. Watching the pack of 100 disappear, and then another, became another metric for me. This Thursday, I opened the fifth pack... I drank more than 400 cups of coffee while drawing. Maybe it’s not hair' Maybe the figure is just drowning in coffee'
Details
- Title
- September 26, 2020: Uncontained
- Artist Life
- Ameircan (born Poland), born 1967
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2021.1.187
- Curator Approved
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