Created March 29, 2020

Being quarantined from his granddaughters depresses him. Thinking of how happy Disneyland makes little Naomi and dreaming for the day when the world returns to normal.

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.