Drawing untitled / The Thing (virus)

RTomens, 2020

Drawing/print I made this afternoon. I didn't initially intend to make the figure quite so...grisly? It just happened that way. perhaps the 'horror' of imminent London lock down had a subconscious effect.

The text is cut off - appropriately - since it feels as if we're all becoming increasingly cut off from the outside world. Except, of course, for the digital global village which, as yet, is not in lock down...although, as you know, it's still possible to catch a 'virus' online. But most of the babble on Facebook, for instance, is about the virus, or The Thing, as I like to call it...since we are in danger of becoming completely paranoid about who has 'it' and which of them we should tie up in a room somewhere.