How Things Are

Basic Information

Artist(s):
Leslie Roberts
Title:
How Things Are
Medium:
Surface Size:
16 x 12 in.
Framed Size:
18.5 x 14.5 in.
Date Created:
2017
Inventory #:
Roberts-2017-01

Description

titled above the image upper left

signed, titled, and dated on the back of the panel

 

Handwritten text: text messages in response to “how are things?”

Transcript:

Could be worse

It’s getting unnerving

Anxious

So far so good

Home and glad of it

Laying low

Just peeling out of hazmat gear

Having little luck getting clear info

Can’t get used to this level of turnover

Having a different quandary

Feels like the flu

Too many emotions

Satire is a challenge now

Am being sedated

Went all the way to NJ

 

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