my line for today is just this reflects the interplay between desire and reality in the space of forced isolation. Drawing on the form of the tarot card—which traditionally measures 2.75 x 4.75 inches—each of these works represent a manifestation of the interrelated mental and physiological spaces the artist entered during lockdown. The cards’ form allows them to be shuffled and organised at the user’s discretion, enabling each individual image to function within the larger grouping of its counterparts, thus emerging as a tool to continuously re-visualise both internal and external experience of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Maya Lydia Bushell is a recent graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where she completed a joint Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and History of Art and Architecture. Her senior Capstone project was an extended work of creative non-fiction centered on her relationship with food, family, and the formation of identity. Maya is the recipient of the Anne Crookshank Prize in History of Art and Architecture, and has worked for a number of arts organisations including Jason McCoy Gallery, the Trinity College Gallery Art Hire Scheme, Printed Matter, Inc., and Ugly Duckling Presse. From 2018 to 2019 she was Co-Editor of Icarus magazine, Ireland’s oldest arts publication still in existence. Her writing and visual art have been published in Icarus, Carta, Tn2, MISC. and grass magazines, as well as Trinity News and The Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.