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Covid-19 and Drawing Dusadee Huntrakul, 29 March 2020
THIS IS A CRAZY TIME. Myself and the five, there are six in total, other artists in this exhibition can’t even go to our own show. We have already bought the tickets. My university announced that traveling to countries on the restricted list would put us at risk of the Covid-19 virus; Malaysia included. We were super excited at first but later scared about traveling, and so decided to go to Malaysia just before the university made their announcements. At the time, we were listening to the news and looking at the restrictions on various embassy alerts. A few days before the trip, we decided not to travel to not put the public at risk if we were to become carriers and spreaders of the Covid-19 virus. However, the exhibition must go on. So, instead of carrying art into Malaysia, we had to ship everything. As I’m writing this, the show opens tomorrow and things have still not yet arrived. My first visit to Malaysia had the great (late) Ise take me out to Kampung Baru. A few other friends also took me to amazing barbecue pork places, where the head chef came out only to cut the pork and then left the kitchen. There were more amazing noodles and sweets than I could imagine. At a later time, during an Architecture Seminar hosted by UC Berkeley in Kuala Lumpur, I brought my wife to Kampung Baru to look
