Drawing Circles - many of them, 170,000 of them, in fact, to try to understand what a number that big actually is. Calming, but with intent. There's a beauty in both the practice and the result, if drawn with focus and purpose. In John Green's podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed, Episode # 24 he reviews The Works of Art of Agnes Martin and Hiroyuki Doi - she of the color fields and geometric grids and he of the many many circles. And then this response, which loops into the act of drawing, an attempt to understand the magnitude of a number like 170,000 -- which by now has reached 180,000 and for sure, will eclipse 200,000. That is, the number of folks in the US who have died from this pandemic. Each circle is a life, encircled by family, friends, work, projects, art.
Woke to weird tangerine skies, a thick layer of smoke held in place by fog above it and no wind to speak of. Not so hot today, but oppressive in spirit. Small flecks of grey-white ash drift down to sprinkle the tomato plants, coat the tables, obscure the views of hillsides and mountain. Thick enough on the cars to write "VOTE" on them, leaving fingertips black.
Meanwhile, others are fleeing their burning houses.
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