Limited Edition Accordion Book "Messy Pandemic Thoughts"

Now in the Rare Book Collection of the University of Virginia. 

19/20 Limited Edition Copies Still Available.  Price will increase as availability dwindles  

$195

I created this book and wrote this poem in April 2020 during the early days of the pandemic

when we felt afloat, unsure, depressed, etc. 

It is a visual representation of that time…

There is No "Right" Way to React to a Pandemic

by Anne Bedrick on April 10, 2020

There is no "right" way to react to a pandemic

There is only this day

And this moment's reaction

No "right" way to ART

No "should", no "shouldn't"

We are all at sea

Floating, falling

Spinning in place

At the edges of the life we once knew

Grasping at the familiar

Our homes are cages of isolation 

Some days continue the work of the before

Busy, busy

Doing

As if nothing is changed

In denial of the current reality

Other days it is impossible to escape

Into the paint and color 

Judged by a former version of self

A self on hold 

Perhaps never to return

The real work is to be okay with the one

that shows up each day

To remind

To remember

There is no "right" way to react in a pandemic