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  2021-05-18

  Quarantine leaves us incomplete

  Quarantine was a hard time on us all; it hit most of us out of nowhere and left us locked inside our homes for what an eternity and for most people, they had to spend that time alone. I did not go out a lot during this time so I went online and chose the pictures that I believe best represent what mine and many others felt their quarantine was like. Jose’ Manuel Ballester, a Spanish artist recreated iconic historical paintings and removed the most pivotal part in each of them; the people. Dubbed “Hidden Spaces”, Ballester recreates a series of works in which he is able to present an angle of how the world is like during quarantine. Iconic masterpieces like the Last Supper is left to just an empty table. Ballester is able to show the loneliness and emptiness that quarantine has left people in, by removing the people from the paintings Ballester thus leaving the audience with a certain feeling of discomfort reminiscent of the lack of company and interaction leaves us feeling when we are quarantined and I really resonated with these photos because that is how I felt during this quarantine.
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  2020-05-26

  The Last Supper of Jesus Conducted via Zoom

  This is a funny and artistic meme depicting Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, The Last Supper as if it would happen during the pandemic. The supper turned into a virtual event, conducted over Zoom. Jesus is seated at the table with the apostles overhead in their video chat windows. Jesus is assumed to be the host of the meeting, and he is using a Mac computer. Very well done!