2020 Blue Christmas

The year 2020 deserved an especially blue Christmas for several reasons, personal, national, and global. We doctored this Elvis classic appropriately. In the process, we may have discovered the next Elvis!

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Fun with Acronyms

Phone texting rapidly expanded acronym creation and use from the technical world into the mainstream. “Influencers” now create acronyms for the least little thing. Many “stick” and come into wider use. Acronyms may also evolve.

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After the Trumpian Insurrection

January 6 2021 was among the darkest days in United States history. If 9/11 was like getting shot by an assailant, 1/6 was like sudden and severe symptoms of a cancerous tumor insidiously growing within.

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New York, New York!

This personalized adaptation of The Chairman's Big Apple classic was a collaborative effort of immediate family. After uploading the music video to YouTube, the family gathered online for a surprise event to watch it with the Birthday Boy. Had to be there, but it was delightful fun!

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Divider-in-Chief

This symbolic data-driven work illustrates divisions Donald Trump incited while he was President of the United States. The work fails because it is far from complete.

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Featured in The Isolation Contemplation's Virtual Exhibit

Eight Studio Videnda pieces (three data-driven art, five sonnets) have been accepted into a virtual exhibition by Kilburn Mill, an arts gallery in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The show contains works of visual and written art made in and inspired by our times of isolation in the COVID-19 pandemic this year.

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190,000+

This data-driven artwork shows deaths in the United States from COVID-19 during January - September 2020. It was created for the voting initiative GOOD TROUBLE / U DECIDE: America’s artists honor the legacy of John Lewis. When the poster was submitted in early October, US deaths from COVID-19 exceeded 208,000.

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Claustrophobia and COVID-19: Overcome Fear of Wearing a Mask

Wearing a face mask is perhaps our most important tool to limit spread of COVID-19. However, some people truly fear face coverings. And we’re not talking here about just mask discomfort or inconvenience. We’re talking about fear that can be profound: even the thought of wearing a mask can provoke anxiety, and attempting to do so could provoke panic. It doesn’t matter that the mask is harmless. Phobias are often irrational. What do such people do during this pandemic?

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Hindsight is 2020

The old saying “Hindsight is 20-20” of course refers to the “20-20 vision” we have when looking back in time. The year 2020 will indeed be one that many will want to view in hindsight, if only to know that it’s over and they survived.

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