During these past two months in quarantine, I find myself reflecting on common, everyday moments I took for granted when life was "normal." These two paintings ("Getting There" and "Petals on a Wet Black Bough") were inspired by scenes from my everyday commute on the metro back when life still involved taking public transportation. At the time, I was fascinated by the facial expressions I saw of strangers every morning, and was inspired by the idea of the metro car as a place suspended in time, where passengers are caught together in the in-between before getting off at their respective stops. My interpretation of "Taking Time" is an ode to the metro as a place and time shared by people who might never be together again, of which we're now deprived. 

image information: "Getting There", oil paint, 24"x36"
image information: "Petals on a Wet Black Bough," oil paint, 24"x30"

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Emily Toomey