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Marcus Mastrud | “Busy Bee”

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Three-images: the first is a white, partially abstracted bee wing with orange and blue tear drop shapes inscribed in the wing on a black background ; the middle image is a pair of partially abstracted black bee wings on a white background with blue and orange shapes inscribed in the wings ; the third panel is a partially abstracted white broken bee's wing on a black background, the orange and blue shapes are separated from the shape, all on a black background ; the backgrounds and main shapes of the wings are all made from paper with text on them.

Marcus Mastrud, "Busy Bee," Winter 2022, magazine cut out collage, 6 x 6," 6 x 8," 6 x 6"

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Using magazine paper, I took a line from William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell" ("A busy bee has no time for sorrow") to create a triptypch (three-panel) partially non-objective image. I used magazine articles focused on the impacts of COVID-19 on students to make up the backgrounds and larger shapes, then used the blue/orange colors and textures from the images of those articles to put together the remaining shapes. I was contemplating the mix of work/school culture with serious illness, and how I sometimes feel "too busy" to process the grief that comes with COVID.

A black and white drawing with different visuals such as swirls, checkerboard, lines, and koi fish swimming over the different visuals.

Dreona Beston | “Movement”

A simple line drawing, portraying a human sitting on a corner, holding a torn American flag and a sign that says "Where is My Home?"

Anthony Travis | “Where is my home”