Surviving 2020 - a reality series
‘Surviving 2020’ is a series of brooches created mid-2020 inspired by one crises after another. The writing is taken from actual correspondence about unemployment, home insurance, Covid-19, information about local wildfires... These are constructed pieces of stamped and enameled copper with layers of magazine pages between the copper. They are like little hard cover books telling the story of 2020.
True and correct
“I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE INFORMATION SUBMITTED IS TRUE AND CORRECT TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE”
Enamel with graphite prong-set onto a square of copper with a heat patina. Back is stamped with the narrative
Enamel with graphite prong-set onto a square of copper with a heat patina. Back is stamped with the narrative
Cancelled
“Please be informed we have received a cancellation notice from the above referenced insurance company...”
The top is embossed copper with an image I frequently use from a photo from the 40’s. Painted with many layers of liquid enamel and fired. Riveted to the back piece stamped and enameled with the narrative. Many paper sheets sandwiched between.
The top is embossed copper with an image I frequently use from a photo from the 40’s. Painted with many layers of liquid enamel and fired. Riveted to the back piece stamped and enameled with the narrative. Many paper sheets sandwiched between.
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RARE LIGHTNING STORMS
“RARE LIGHTNING STORMS FIRES SAN MATEO SANTA CLARA SANTA CRUZ” Sunday, August 16, 2020 we were experiencing a heat wave in Santa Cruz county.Temperatures were 100+ which is fairly unusual for this area. PG&E was having rolling outages because of the increased power usage. Our power was only out for about an hour. Later that evening we started experiencing continuous lightning and thunder ALL night long. I think it stopped around 5 or 6am. This was unusual too, I can probably count on one hand how many times I’ve seen lightning in Santa Cruz in the 39+ years that I’ve lived here. The next day everyone was posting pictures of all the cool lightning that they had photographed. Then all of a sudden we started hearing that the lightning had started over 500 wildfires! There was a huge one in the Santa Cruz mountains about 30 miles north of us and well there was another couple in Salinas and Carmel about 30-40 miles south of us.
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46% CONTAINED
“46% CONTAINED ACTIVE FOR 16 DAYS CZU LIGHTNING FIRE 9-2-20” –
