An absence of thinking during a time of fear

I never imagined that I would face the problem of an absence from my life through this stoppage of time. Life today is no longer like it was yesterday; instead, it is a strange occurrence of what it was yesterday and what it might be tomorrow. This feeling of a lack of freedom of movement is the most difficult thing I missed during the period of restrictions. I never imagined that I would ever stop practicing art, but I could feel my feelings of inspiration go away. My mind stopped thinking. This great shock paralyzed my mind from accepting reality and forced me to face my fears. I worked hard to change my lifestyle, to practice my daily activities, to return to my studio, and to do things that helped me overcome this experience of a stoppage of time. In my practice, I found myself exploring work and ideas from the early stages of my career where I worked in black and white, and when I was considering form, color, and abstract geometric relations (abstraction). It was this attempt to create a harmonious order with these abstract forms and elements that brought me peace. Abstraction from our daily reality and the return to an idea became a liberation from the laws of nature. The return to simplicity and form inspired this new body of work.