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CIRCA Art Magazine
1 year ago • •

EL Putnam on how sketching, digitally or otherwise, helped her find a way through lockdowns, 2021
https://circaartmagazine.net/indeterminate-system-a-sketch-of-the-pandemic/
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EL Putnam recounts how sketching, digitally or otherwise, helped her find a way through lockdowns.

I have begun and abandoned this essay multiple times since August 2020. It is my attempt to make some sense as an artist and philosopher of an era that shatters my frame of reason. Almost two years since the pandemic took hold, we continue to cope with the innumerable upheavals, manifesting differently depending on each lived context, of a future that refuses to materialise from this dynamic present. We are in acute crises and, according to Lauren Berlant (who passed away in June 2021), we have been for some time. This epoch is driven by calls for innovation, progress, and production, treating resources, from physical materials to human labour, as infinite and inextinguishable. These illusions of unfettered growth have yet to be tempered by the implications of climate collapse and ecological breakdown, of which this pandemic is part. We are in a situation defined by Berlan…

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