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GOBYBIKE WEEK MAY 31 TO JUNE 6
Feel free
BY CATNIP
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Oh bicycles... wonderful little machinations of movement. They are so freeing.
I painted this work “Still Free” during the beginning of our collective trauma, this ride some call COVID. With everyone inside, reading the news, having zoom meetings, and baking bread, I was out riding my bike.
Some days at the beginning there, the streets were actually so empty, and I wouldn’t see a single soul on the Willingdon Trail. One day I strapped a large yin yang flag to the back of my bike, just to share with whoever was to observe, that peace is still prevalent in these heavier moments. However that day, I’m sure there was no one who laid eyes on me from Townsite to Westview.
It was a quiet, lovely ride – solo, somewhat dystopian, yet still so freeing. So I came home and took a giant piece of wood and painted this coded illustration to remember those very short days of peaceful apocalypse.
Glad we made it through so far, and now we ride for those that didn’t. There might be a long road still to go, but here in our geographical location, if you’ve got two wheels, some handlebars, a frame, and a heartbeat, you just might be alright.
