This artwork was created in collaboration with text-based artist Sarah Simmons.
Dig, is a memorial to the 11,949 lives lost (as one 12/31/21) due to COVID-19 at the intersection of Appalachia and the Rust Belt. Paper masks memorialize individuals and a region needing to be held and lifted collectively in careful labor. Visitors can add names of the deceased to additional masks at the exhibit.
→ Additional press for this artwork: Through the Mask: Conversations About Culture and Covid, McCarl Coverlet Gallery, Saint Vincent College
