How A Young Brooklyn Fashion Designer Has Risen To The Coronavirus Challenge

My Covid-19 Journal / Entry #9 / Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Creative forces change the path of engagement

Artists and designers often are the first responders to reflect the needs of society. By nature, artists are cunningly innovative, constantly ideating, and deeply dedicated to the creative task ahead. And now, the Staying at Home edict has given them the framework to set up their studios at their kitchen tables, garage benches, and living room worktops.

Many famous artists set up shop in their apartments and unusual places during times of war or crises. Paul Klee comes to mind, as do Kandinsky, O’Keeffe, Beuys. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painted his famous visionary alpine landscapes outdoors during World War I while convalescing in Davos in the Swiss Alps.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Davos with Church in Summer, 1925. Public domain image, Wikimedia.

But that was over a hundred years ago.

Today, we have the same catastrophic cataclysm necessitating new ideas

Ingenuity becomes the nourishment for our need of renewal

Art and creation fill the space left empty by loss. The disappearance of something needs to be filled by a creation of something new…