Here is a recent digital drawing of mine… reflecting on the worldwide current coronavirus (COROVID-19) elements: self, science, the world, and the looming overhead threat of death. Just a simple line drawing with a few washes of color…depicting the presence of Death represented by the skeleton.
It reminds me of the “Dance of Death” drawings by various artists in history commenting on the “Black Plague” AKA The Black Death, (The bubonic plague that swept through Europe in the 1300’s) that killed 1/3 of the total population. Those drawing always depicted the spectre of the skeleton inserting itself into everyday scenes with people, no matter their status in society…
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