But dignified

“Nonetheless II” (oil on canvas), by Youngsheen A. Jhe, in her show “Nonetheless.’’ at Galatea Fine Art.

The South Korea-born, Boston-based artist says:

"What kind of world do we live in? As the COVID-19 pandemic pushes us to a disconnected life, every one of us are seemingly stuck in our own world, although humans are social animals. We are forced to walk this path alone and with our masks covering our faces. An invisible glass film (and sometimes visible) blocks us from another. Solitude and loneliness were forced upon our lives and all we can do is to walk this lonely road without a companion.

“My starting desire was to depict the reality of the human beings through the inanimate mannequins, helplessly stuck in their own solitary world.

“From this series, I started to describe living fashion models instead of mannequins. They walk away from other models with expressionless and inanimate faces, but nonetheless their steps are always confident and they walk on a bright path full of light, not bleak hopelessness. It seems to be the image of us living in a pandemic. We have to walk with social distancing, but there is always a bright light for us."