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Art Catharsis at Time of Covid 19 Kofi Fosu Forson September 2020 Great Weather for Media, 2020, Oil Pastel, Graphite, 10 in x 14 in While the “art world” basically shut down during the pandemic, artists had to keep themselves & community creatively active. We recently featured on Arteidolia a series of interviews by Colette Copeland, where she addressed artist couples living under quarantine and how this impacted their daily artistic practices. Since publishing the poetry of writer, poet and playwright Kofi Fosu Forson in swifts & slows: a quarterly of crisscrossings, I’ve been following his Facebook page, where these very intriguing, passionate & candid paintings keep surfacing. Forson captures a mysterious, but revealing deepness with each one portrayed. Curious as to how they evolved, I asked Kofi if he’d like to write about it. Puma, 2020, Oil Pastel, Graphite, Crayon 10 in x 14 in ART CATHARSIS AT TIME OF COVID-19: REFLECTIONS ON SELF-IDENTITY The world is exp