It was a dark and cold early Spring here in upstate NY. It was hard to find the motivation to sit down and draw something, but I’m trying to keep up my personal practice this year so I decided to finish an old drawing I sketched back in March 2020.
This was early in the pandemic. We had just left the city to stay with my wife’s family up here in the mountains. We were very isolated and my only distraction from the news was taking long walks. One day I snapped a picture of a chipmunk peeking out of a cut-down tree. Back then it struck me as a fitting metaphor for the current mood: we’re all on edge, checking to see if it was safe to come out. Sadly, two years later it still feels very appropriate… I hope this is the Spring we can finally start to regroup and organize.
Here is the black and white drawing and the reference picture: