Ellen Shattuck Pierce: Taking Place

Linoleum is a sketchbook for me, a meditative place. Making a linocut allows me to slowly carve lines that are very certain in this uncertain time. Since March 16th 2020, I have created imagery related to the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in the Covid Chronicles, a series of eighteen relief carvings. The carvings each measure 18 x 24 inches and chronicle my experience of the Covid-19 pandemic in Boston, Massachusetts and its wider impact in the United States.