Created August 17, 2020

Day 160 - With mail service the lifeblood for many in rural America, we now find the US Postal Service under siege in Washington. If mailboxes are being removed and sorting machines scuttled in an attempt at voter suppression, then what is the meaning of democracy?

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.