Odone Releasing Book of Pandemic Work

May 2, 2022 12:00 AM

Jamison Odone (Visual Arts) will release his new book, My First Pandemic, in May. Odone describes it as a collection of drawings, thoughts, poems, comics, anger, happiness, life, and death from a difficult period in our history.

“Over the last two years, between crises and quarantines, I have had time to reflect, to page through old books of poetry, to draw hundreds of rabbit people - for some reason,” said Odone. “The loss of a stepfather, followed by the loss of a good friend, gives cause to contemplate one's own mortality. It's strange how the thoughts of 19th-century poets can echo our own. What will we leave behind when our time comes? Sadness, sure, but also wee, silly drawings in honest-to-goodness paper and ink.”