The Art of It All

What have you learned about yourself or the world as a result of living through the COVID-19 pandemic? Your challenge is to express your experience of living through this historic time through a work of art.

Coronavirus Figuration Impacts

Summary

The project addresses a piece of art which is manual-hand drawing to illustrate the COVID-19 pandemic impacts on life fields. In the following a summary of the project details. In the right-top corner, Jesus incarnation in a compassion repentance being appearing his sadness because of closing Catholic parishes across the world. In the same section, the sky appears in angel being as evidence of nature purity after Coronavirus pandemic as human behavior changes and their combustion industries stopped for a while. In the same section, at the left of Jesus, a man hugging his son, clarify less awareness between the citizens in many countries, especially in Africa. Behind the hugging guys, a depiction of the virus to prove that the virus still spreading rapidly and disturbance human fields. In the right-bottom corner, a lake figuration full of oil and an oil barrel pouring on the lake, illustrating oil prices collapse to reach the lowest one in the last 18 years, a torn ball floating in the lake to demonstrate that even sports activities had stopped and deteriorated within the infection. In the top-left corner, a third section clarify that due to the change in people everyday behaviors and patterns to avoid the virus, the environment exploit its chance to the feel the happiness and the sneeze, we illustrated the happiness of nature by drawing a woody tree smiling in a compassion-being looking from the window. In the last section, in the bottom-left corner a man dying due to being affected, the dying man in Pierre Curie face to prove that coronavirus has no exceptions, killing all even scientists or Nobel men. We draw him despite he already died, but to connect between the past and the future and to mean that the world faces many pandemics before coronavirus appearance. In the neighborhood, a woman lying in the ground, in a sadness-looking face because the dying man was his wife, figured her in Marie Curie's face to stabilize the relation and the past connection with our current future and to emphasize that love even exists despite any crises. In the same section a doctor who is Emil Von Behring who gains a noble prize in medicine and physiology, drawing him as admiration for his achievements and as a past connection. Doctor Emil wearing a protective suit as evidence for the great awareness he had. An infected man tied in Doctor Emil’s left hand, tied him fit with quarantine idea which could prevent spreading the virus and prove social distancing and impacts.

How We Addressed This Challenge

The project addresses this challenge by demonstrating COVID-19 impacts on all life fields, we clarify each impact in a part of our project cited by NASA Agency Data. Some subtle effects appeared in many fields since the COVID-19 pandemic. First, in the left-top corner. drawing a woody tree smiling in a compassion-being illustrates that the environment started breathing again but with feeling pity. Second, in the right-bottom corner, drawing oil and a poured barrel in the lake as elucidate the reduction in oil's value means the economy has fallen demonstrates the current economic changes. Third, the man dying in the bottom-left corner depicts the huge death numbers and suffering. Finally, drawing Jesus' incarnation with tied hands shows repentance and sorrow because of worship churches closing.

How We Developed This Project

this challenge has been elected not only because art is the most expressible way to clarify and discuss any topic, but also we have been inspired to choose these challenges because of our capabilities, talents, and our passion to illustrate how our lives are going within COVID-19 pandemic. We use NASA Agency Data as a reference cited to come up with ideas to apply, for instance, NASA COVID-19 pathfinders which helped us getting environmental and economic impacts due to coronavirus. The usual used tools are manual as our project is a manual drawing, so we use paints, paintbrushes, and papers. we faced many problems, for instance, time challenge as we had to do all of this in about 48 hours, one of the positive points is the teamwork and the cooperation between the team members.

Project Demo

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1ijTL2WArqArdkyGAiFhWkXZgsBwd20nf

Data & Resources

COVID-19 Data Pathfinder: Find Environmental impacts Data:  https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders/covid-19/environmental-impacts 


NASA datasets available in Cloud Qmtimized GeoTIFFs: https://earthdata.nasa.gov/collaborate/cloud-optimized-geotiffs



NASA Earth Observatory; How the Coronavirus Is (and Is Not) Affecting the Environment: 

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2020/03/05/how-the-coronavirus-is-and-is-not-affecting-the-environment/

within COVID-19 pandemic, people have changed their everyday behaviors and patterns to contain or avoid the virus, there have been some subtle effects on the environment including a decrease in air pollutant, roads become emptier [Vehicles gases production decrease as a result], coal and gases industries have dropped, so carbon gase emissions also decreased.  (in our project we demonstrated the environment change by drawing a woody tree smiling in a compassion-being to illustrate environment happiness and pity)



BBC News: Coronavirus pandemic: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52089127

Oil price collapses to the lowest level for 18 years since the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the USA. We demonstrated these economical changes in the right-bottom corner: drawing a lake full of oil and a poured barrel in the lake as evidence that oil has no value.



https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/20/us-oil-prices-plunge-below-zero-amid-coronavirus-pandemic


According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/  today, 31-may coronavirus pandemic has reached 372,743 death cases worldwide. We demonstrated that in the bottom-left corner, where we draw a man dying. We draw him in Pierre Curie face to prove that coronavirus has no exceptions, killing all even scientists or Nobel men. We draw him despite he already died, but to connect between the past and the future and to mean that the world faces many pandemics before coronavirus appearance


NCR: 

https://www.ncronline.org/news/coronavirus/church-after-coronavirus-crisis-exposes-what-essential

Catholic parishes across the world are closed. Millions of Catholics have been unable to physically take part in the celebration of the Mass for weeks and may not be able to again for months. we demonstrated the religious inability during the pandemic in the right-top corner, by drawing Jesus incarnation whilst tied from his hand showing repentance and regret.

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#HardWare #Drawing #CoronavirusVariousImpacts.
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.