Stretching out the pandemic

“In the Time of Covid” (acrylic on paper), by Antoinette Winters, at Kingston Gallery, Boston, for December

She tells the gallery:

“Much like everyone else, I was consumed by the news. I read and listened to anything that might inform me. The language, and its daily repetition, took hold. I made lists of phrases and words. I organized and edited them, focusing primarily on the language and events of the first three months of the pandemic. The use of a long accordion book provided both a means of including the extensive text while also emphasizing the length of the pandemic.”

Antoinette Winters is a mixed-media artist who works at her studio at the Waltham Mills Artist Association, in Waltham, Mass.

Waltham Supermarket on Main Street, in Waltham, established in 1936, was a large historic grocery store that closed in the 1990s. The building continues to be a supermarket, occupied subsequently by Shaw's, then Victory, and now Hannaford.

— Photo by jmorgan