variant Cycle

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"Variant Cycle" recognizes the threat of the coronavirus and is inspired by William Butler Yeats' poem, "The Second Coming.” He wrote the poem in the aftermath of WWI and while his wife recovered from the Spanish flu – just more than a hundred years ago – as the 1918-1919 pandemic subsided.

Likewise, my images reflect my uneasiness and apprehension during the 2021 period of "opening up" and amidst the promise of vaccines to fend off Covid 19. After all, Pfizer said then its vaccine was only 88 percent effective against the Delta variant. Now, in 2022 some are predicting the onset of an even stronger variant. 

So, is this recovery truly real? Or, will we end up like deer at the feeder – only to be hunted. Shot dead later by some new variant of the coronavirus. 

   As Yeats wrote: "the centre cannot hold."

Variant Cycle

"Vexed to nightmare"

bound by uncertainty

the game of corn

may lead to spoils

we’ve come undone

– CD