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| Coastal Art Center, Orange Beach, AL |
An Artist Faces the Plague
In the earlier post titled Entropy* I sketched out the initial wave that washed over the landscape which many artists live on. Devastating Uncertainty could be the title for what would be the historic crash of and entire cultural system. Not just in the United States but all over the globe where various economic dislocations occurred due to the draconian policies that were spawned by the Covid Plague‡.
When the news that Covid was spreading havoc across the world🌎 we were on our way to the Coastal Art Center in Orange Beach, Alabama for the annual art festival the second week of March 2020. The show was a small but well attended event that we had been working for a decade or more.
Driving north from Florida we were already hearing tales of panic from other artist whose events had been canceled. However, what would be coming was still only a paranoid mystery.
The location the festival was on the grounds of the Art Center🎨that is directly on Wolf Bay and just off the Gulf of Mexico which was less than two miles to the south. We were on a barrier island that stretches about 30 miles from Mobil Bay in the west to Perdido Bay just a mile or so to the east which forms the border between Alabama and Florida.
