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Collected Item: “Art to be together”

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Art to be together

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

images, text

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

These images and accompanying text express emotion of longing to be with loved ones and happiness at finding ways to feel together during prolonged times of separation because of COVID-19. The drawings and paintings were created as a means of spending time with others and creating things, both during quarantine (drawing together via video calls) and in public spaces (chalk painting in a driveway where neighbors passing by might see it). Some of the art was done for mental health, sense of family and community.

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art, HST580, Arizona State University, technology, family, children, motherhood, drawing

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Monica Ruth and kids

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2021-01-31
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