Gouache on Paper, 21"x27"
Sara Glick lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Since the beginning of the pandemic, she has spent most of her time in Brighton Beach, a few hundred feet from where her great-grandmother lived. She has spent many quarantined days and nights gazing out at the North Atlantic from her boyfriend's balcony on the 10th floor. Countless cargo vessels, empty and full, glide back and forth across the horizon month after month, toting who knows what to who knows where. With her bird's eye view, the tankers are graceful and motionless. It is distance playing tricks with reality. These buoyant metal monsters are anything but soft and gentle. The illusion is much more palatable.