while work on the other side was completed during the pandemics of 2020, it began on a more personal level in late 2019, when the fragility of life was more pervasive to mark than usual
however, what began as a study in mortality was challenged to be something more by living in new york city, where, for a suspended moment, we were the epicenter of both the covid-19 crisis and the black lives matter movement – and, as usual, the world looked to us to lead the way. to rely on his melancholy tendencies would have been easy and predictable, so we looked for the proverbial crack of light to counterbalance the somber tones of his original vision
drawing on various cultures, spanning ancient to pop, mark hopes that this latest offering helps you to see the ‘we in me’, as there is a little bit of everybody in each of these talismans
