Aaron Wojack: Quarantine Still Lives

Aaron Wojack was looking for a way to keep his creativity going and distract himself from the initial shock and panic in the early days of Covid.

“I turned to photography and began making work in my home using items at hand and flowers I would get from grocery trips to the farmers market. When my hometown of Minneapolis responded to the death of George Floyd these images took on new meaning. In the flowers I continued to see these arrangements as memorials, alters and shrines to the lives lost and affected by Covid. But with the renewed attention to racial injustice in America I could not help but think of the lives ruined by systemic racism and violence as I continued to make these images. I see the smoke as harkening the tear gas that was being used by police in response to protests, fires at those protests and the smoke of wildfires on the west coast.”