Art display focuses on health care workers' struggle during COVID-19 pandemic
The struggle of health care workers is the subject of a new art display in Missouri. The artist said it is a tribute to her son-in-law, who is a doctor, and health care workers.
"In the middle of COVID, I don't think he was home hardly at all," artist Lynn Richardson said about her son-in-law, Ben, who worked nonstop for nearly two years during the pandemic.
"There wasn't a hospital bed available," she said for health care workers to take a break or nap in.
Richardson said she wanted to show her son-in-law that she understood what health care workers were going through and painted him a picture.
"Everyone started crying. I mean, he started kind of crying," Richardson said.
It was a tribute that she said Ben and his co-workers loved so much, it convinced her to do a complete series. She said she wanted her work to really show exhaustion and appreciation.
"He was exhausted, and they were all exhausted," Richardson said.
The watercolors are mostly painted blue, representing the scrubs they wore. Each piece shows how difficult it was for many health care workers to keep going.
"These images that I thought would be so indicative of the feeling that all of these medical workers these health workers had during the time," Richardson said.
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