Sumaira Isaacs, The Pandemic Love - My painting is an ode to the bizarre pandemic (covid 19), chronicling the loves and lives of many others, separated couples, and families. As result, of experiencing firsthand almost a year-long separation from my husband, reunited only recently. Living apart in two worlds, trying to deal with ‘new-normal’ – as family, friends try to reassure -hold you together. The upheaval of the virus acts as a backdrop, a constant reminder of the fragility of the world we live in: Apart. It’s erratic strokes, documents and captures the chaotic feeds, that constitute long-distance intimacy in the digital era: video calls, text chats, emojis, filters photos by the thousands, as we move from one season to another, picking on silver linings.