Karen Breunig

Painting while suffering from Long Covid was a struggle.  I often had brain fog and daily bouts of dizziness and fatigue.  My dizziness felt like motion sickness and would start in the mid afternoon and last into the night. This was a daily occurrence and went on for 2 ½ years. My doctors had few suggestions. 

I had frequent episodes of hopelessness alternating with almost desperate times of online research.  There was little information that could tell me what was going on and how it could be helped. 

There were occasional  mornings when I felt almost normal.  During these times, I would go to my studio.  Painting offered me a break from the sense of isolation and loneliness that Long Covid had brought.  

When I look at the paintings from that time, I quickly revisit those feelings of loneliness, a sense of futility, isolation, brain fog and an almost dissociative sense of not being connected to the earth or the other humans around me.