“Fat Strawberries” by Photographer Grace Ann Leadbeater

Grace Ann Leadbeater (beforehand featured right here) is a Brooklyn, New York-based artist and educator invested in phrases, footage and bookmaking. Initially begun 5 years in the past, her sequence, “Fats Strawberries,” actually began to take form through the starting of the pandemic. The work explores the longing that emerges throughout crises—for contact from others, consistency in routine, tenacity for hope, small pleasures, life.

Throughout a very heightened interval of solitude, Leadbeater documented the main points of her newfound routines and each day life, generally as nonetheless life preparations together with elements from the frilly meals she was cooking, and generally highlighting singular objects of private significance. When the pet fish she was taking care of for associates unexpectedly died, she photographed him too. “I suppose it’s foolish to be writing about or documenting the demise of a fish, however when many issues round you might be dying, each demise is proof of a disaster,” she explains. “The eager for something however this solely intensifies, such because the small pleasures: fats strawberries.”

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