Somewhere between weeks 12 and 14, I decided that I would wrap up the COVID & HOBBES project when I had completed 100 days’ worth of collages. When I began — on March 16, three days after the coronavirus was named a pandemic and the first day of many, many days of working from home — I anticipated doing two week’s worth of Calvin and Hobbes remixes. (Ha!)
Looking back, these little daily snapshots really do capture what it has been like to process something so big and overwhelming and scary and uncertain.
I think these final two collages sum 2020 up entirely: it’s a year that is both worth writing off forever and a year that has the potential to generate meaningful and lasting systemic change for marginalized communities, if we get to work.
See the rest of the series (and please, keep wearing a mask):