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A dark brown wooden bowl filled with colored balls and crocheted COVID cells. The balls are also wooden and painted in metallic blue, yellow, orange, green, pink, and purple and carved with different crossed and waved patterns. One of the balls in the middle is a light brown with the image of a COVID mask burned into it. Surrounding the wooden balls are the crocheted COVID cells, made with metallic multicolored and orange yarn.

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In Collections: Creativity in the Time of COVID-19

Copyright Status: In Copyright

Date Created: 2019/2022

Artists: King, Erin

Subjects: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- , in art

Material Type: Mixed media works
Sculpture (visual works)

Language: No linguistic content

Extent: 1 mixed media sculpture

Genre Note: Mixed media sculptures made of found objects

Exhibit Label: This is a collaboration piece that one of my fellow artists-in-residence and I made for our exhibition. I crocheted the corona viruses and my cohort member turned the wooden bowl and balls. My cohort member also wrote a poem that accompanied it in the exhibition. --Label design by exhibit curator Nancy DeJoy. Labels written by Ben Lash and his team in consultation with artist statements.

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