Flotilla of Candles
by Aberjhani
Title
Flotilla of Candles
Artist
Aberjhani
Medium
Painting - Fine Art Digital Painting
Description
By definition, the word “flotilla” refers to a fleet of ships. In regard to “Flotilla of Candles,” it is used metaphorically to describe hundreds of thousands of candles lit and set afloat in honor of those whose lives have been lost to COVID-19. When news broke that the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the United States had surpassed 200,000, and the number of losses worldwide hit more than 1 million, we were reminded all over again of the grim realities of the year 2020. Some of us living in classified “Red Zones” and “Orange Zones” have never had a chance to forget them.
In addition to serving as an acknowledgement of people lost around the world to the pandemic, “Flotilla of Candles” is a tribute to those who have battled ceaselessly against it. We know well enough about the medical professionals who have repeatedly put their lives at risk since the peak of the outbreak. In fact, any number have died from coronavirus themselves and lost both loved ones and colleagues to it. There are also, however, many more like public transportation workers, grocery store clerks, and farm workers who in the past have so often been overlooked or taken for granted, but who in 2020 proved “essential” to many communities’ survival.
This artwork started as a poetic tribute to my own children, lost under other conditions years ago. But the more I worked on it, the more I felt they would have wanted me to widen the scope to acknowledge stories of lives beyond our own. A pandemic, after all, is something which impacts world populations and not just 1 or 2 households or communities. Remembrance itself is a form of beauty and the year 2020 has given us a lot to remember.
Aberjhani
Harlem Renaissance Centennial 2020
https://www.author-poet-aberjhani.info/
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October 12th, 2020
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Thank you very much Carol. I couldn't let the year 2020 end without paying tribute to the victims and heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Very glad you like it Angela. Thanks for commenting.
Aberjhani's Official Postered Chromatic Poetics
Greatly appreciate that Danny. Like you, I'm holding out hope "the ship can be righted in the near future."
DANNY LOWE
A beautiful tribute to all of the workers having to put their lives on the line to serve others whether as a health care worker or clerk or driver, etc. Maybe the ship can be righted in the near future. However, how many more must die until that happens?
VIVA Anderson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberjhani ..... your/story, with gratitude to you, for all to read, become aware.........Kudos, Aberjhani !!
VIVA Anderson
So beautiful, this Remembrance, dear Aberjhani, and on the smallest scale, my heartfelt, 'knowing' , sorrow for your personal losses, and, kudos for this Tribute on a world scale, too. The unseen !! enemy lurks among all of us....I give thanks for so far avoiding the cost, others have borne, and Celebrated here, so beautifully. Thank you, Aberjhani, for so much , for raising awareness, compassion............fav/VIVA
Aberjhani replied:
Much gratitude for your kind insightful comments VIVA. Many of us have indeed been very lucky to escape the wrath of the pandemic thus far but too many obviously have not.
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