It is the poets, artists, and musicians that will carry us through the pandemic attacks into a new reality. They are the ones who tell us how to navigate, breathe, feel, think, enjoy, and fully live our lives. (“Because the world had corona”)

This quote by Erik Pevernagie this is fitting for this piece titled “ For Dana” it centers around an interview I did with my friend @konartstudio Konstance Patton a few weeks back. The pandemic, lockdowns, and the protesting lead to artist taking to the streets of New York.

The artist weren’t armed with baseball bats, crow bars, or torches. They were armed with spray cans, and paint brushes. The store fronts of SoHo were boarded with plywood creating the perfect canvas for street art.

Fast forward to November 2nd 2020 Patton has added street artist to her tool box, she an a host of other artist have formed a collective called “ Soho Renasaince Factory”

For Dana is a community piece that was created in Patton’s old neighborhood, family and friends took part in the the workshop. From Detroit to NYC back to Detroit, she came to honor her friend “Dana Selah Elam with a “Goddess Mural” It’s a project she’s been working on form more than ten years as she’s speaks about in the mini doc.

Visual artist paints, draw, film the ills of society from their perspective, Poets speak on the ills of society from their perspective, Musicians ain’t about the ills of society from their perspective. In the time of chaos, a pandemic and a resurgence of a virus. Positive energy’s day events that brings a community like this one I witnessed a few weeks back is needed. Somehow someway we will get through this.