I just finished up a new cityscape painting - the final one for 2020. It's been a fairly productive year for making art. I created 20 new paintings in 2020. And there were about two months I didn’t paint or go to the studio because of the pandemic.
This most recent one is another painting where the perspective of looking up at the buildings seems like they're falling toward the viewer. And with it, another poem that came from thinking of ideas for a title of this piece.
Vacant Buildings (Downtown Pandemic Blues)
Quiet city streets with distant sounds of freight trains.
Office workers — working from home.
Theaters shut, bars and restaurants closed —
Painfully alone.
Thinking about the vacant buildings,
With their downtown pandemic blues.
Vacant Buildings (Downtown Pandemic Blues), oil on canvas, 30x40", 2020