From February 14 to May 9, 2020 I painted in a 60-page sketchbook. The start date was of no significance other than it was time to start a new sketchbook after completing a previous one. As the Coronavirus began to spread, my sketchbook began to feel its influence. By the time I completed filling this sketchbook I realized that it contained a visual diary of sorts that captured imagery that expressed for me, some of the anxiousness and anxieties I was feeling, as things were initially dismissed, gradually became lethal and then finally became full blown. My ongoing imagery morphed and new motifs were added and transformed by it.

Then one Saturday while checking in at Zoot Coffee in Camden, Maine, my favorite coffee establishment/exhibition venue, I got the idea to create a small window box for them to display my sketchbook, in order to help them maintain their community presence as an earnest exhibition space for local art, during their planned summer long curbside service. Because of their curbside practice, their interior space had been rendered inaccessible to their patrons. The Pandemic Sketchbook went on view, for the summer of 2020, and was changed at the whim of the proprietor to display one of the nearly 60 drawings it contained. The whole set up was viewable through the street window as patrons queued up for coffee outside.