Pablo Garcia

In Isolation: Pencil

In Isolation is a series split into media elements: pencil, water, ink, and salt. While traveling across the world on academic sabbatical in 2019 and 2020, I decided to “go back to basics,” exploring and improving techniques with graphite, watercolor, pens, and various sketchbooks to document what I saw on four continents. When COVID-19 prompted severe lockdowns, creative work became restricted to scenes and supplies inside our Melbourne, Australia apartment. In Isolation evolved into a series of images, made by hand, recording the anxiety, boredom, and intimacy of quarantine.

In Isolation: Pencil is made on various toned papers with three pencils (2H, HB, 2B), one white Prismacolor pencil, and a kneaded eraser.

For other works in the series, see In Isolation: Ink, In Isolation: Water, and In Isolation: Salt.