Created June 6, 2020

Day 87 - Trying to reframe 87 days of sheltering-in-place in a positive light, the artist reflects, "at least I haven’t had to wear shoes."

From exhibition America Disrupted, featuring a series of watercolors painted during the Covid-19 quarantine. At once a record of the artist’s emotional response to our current era, it is also a time Jay Samit found himself conflicted about his nation’s history. Part therapeutic, part social commentary, Samit’s palette reveals the fissures in American society further exposed by this unsettling period.