There were sketches and little collages and maybe a few poems from May 2020 until May 2021, but mostly there was teaching art and everyday life-taking time away from personal art making. Then the cicadas arrived and I love the cicadas (Brood X). They show up in Maryland every seventeen years. The last time they had arrived, I was in my second year of teaching and I caught lots of cicadas to share with my middle school students. I also made a linocut print (Cicadas Suck Sap) and printed a few shirts for friends. I decided to make a new linocut print and shirts to celebrate these amazing creatures' arrival in 2021! I told my friends and family, "send me a shirt and I'll print cicadas on it for you." I printed around 50 shirts! I also ate lunch with the cicadas outside of my school every day, they were loud and great company! I also painted a painting expressing the sound and movement of the cicadas.
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