Artworks shared by Laimah Osman for Les Carnets de Camargo, a collaborative project born during the lockdown in 2020 to encourage Camargo's Fellows and Residents to share their experiences and insights on these changing times. Les Carnets de Camargo also aims at being a bond for our community, through reflection and exchange.

"I have started to experiment with materials and techniques to make a new body of work. It started this spring. My intent was to stay positive in this hard time, with so many people dead and dying and political divisiveness. As I walked through my neighborhood, I noticed the empty streets as people stayed indoors for fear of catching COVID-19. At the same time, the trees were budding and blooming. There was this eerie scene of cherry blossoms floating in the empty city streets. I caught some of the blossoms and made sketches. These sketches grew into woodblock prints. I am learning how to make water-based prints from home, using Japanese Mokuhanga techniques. I hope that these prints show all of this—my learning how to get the colors and textures right, this strange spring as well as personal narratives I wrote into the prints."

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