Elizabeth Katt

an accounting
by Elizabeth Katt
livestream presentation of an artwork in progress on this YouTube channel and facebook.com/ekattstudio

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted everyone’s lives in 2020 continuing into 2021. The virus has caused over 585,000 deaths in the United States. This number is hard to conceive;  "an accounting" will try to bring clarity to the enormity of the number of lives lost to this virus. This artwork is a combination of the time it takes to create that many marks and the visual impact of the marks in total.  A mark for each person who has died during the pandemic is drawn on adding machine tape. The work will proceed based on the number of dead for each date as the pandemic continues.

The daily data on deaths for this artwork is sourced from this website: 
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/