Leslie Elliottsmith
Cote, 2020
Composite photograph
15.25 x 15.25 in
$600
COTE a shelter for small birds –
This is our reality, separate nests. People alone with no partner, parents away from their children, new parents learning to navigate the new reality. Souls flying through the branches of the trees departing this earth. This Cote of doves is representative of families in this pandemic. The tree is the watchful eye of history and the empty nest loss and finality and the full nest, a hopeful change of fortune.