Parking Lot Pandemic by Jeanne Randolph (2021)

Jeanne Randolph 
Parking Lot Pandemic
2021
64 page, soft cover, sewn bound artist book
10 x 6 ½ inches
Publisher: flask
Limited Edition: 100 copies
Printed by Mitchell Press in Vancouver
ISBN: 978-1-7777206-2-9
 
Parking Lot Pandemic is an artist book created by Jeanne Randolph in conjunction with her exhibition of the same name at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, September 3 – October 2nd 2021.  In photographs and text, Randolph’s paripatetic musings focus on the early days of Covid. Walking through the empty streets of downtown she speculates on a tiny virus that has brought the populace to a standstill.  As she says, "I am intrigued by the idea that these tiny, tiny creatures, even viruses or germs, are not quite classified as living animals. It goes against the grain to portray something as tiny as a virus or an aphid as having their place and their consciousness in our everyday life."