COVID Lungs: A Trilogy

This is a COVID-motivated, mixed-media triptych. Running across all three pieces is the image of the damaged lung, COVID’s most grotesque signature.

The left image depicts the brewing storm driven by China’s wet-market where trafficked animals are kept in conditions of bio-insecurity, ripe for zoonotic events. It details 2007 scientific findings that SARS emerged from these conditions and which predict that the next pandemic will too.

The middle image depicts the brutal reckoning of this disease and the concomitant haphazard way in which countries like the United States (mis)managed it.

To the right, is an imagined post-pandemic future of renewal.

This was published in Detour Ahead on 6 November 2020 and in Passager Books’ Pandemic Diaries.