Covid Nomad by Keren Lowell

 

Textile artist Keren Lowell moved from Alaska to Colorado at the beginning of the pandemic. Before she moved she shed most of her personal possessions. Like most of us she had time to reflect, and she listed all of the places she had lived through her life which reached over forty. She then revisited her memories going through letters, maps of her travels,photographs and asking her parents about stories from her childhood and put these into her project.

 

“I can’t travel and move around physically during this time of relative isolation and social distancing, but I have been nomadically traveling through these memories, journals, photographs, maps and stories from my parents and siblings.”

 

Sewn from remnants from a number of sources including her sister’s wedding dress, she also included a large abstract  map of everywhere she had travelled and lived.

 

Covid Nomad was exhibited as part of ‘Fragile Domestic,’ at the Bunnell Street Art Center

and you can find out more about Keren in the interview I did with her a few years ago here