Quarantine Walk Drawing Map
Quarantine Walk Drawing Map is a site-specific installation that was part of the “Holding it Together” group show at the Palo Alto Art Center in Palo Alto, CA, from November 3 to December 12, 2020. The installation is a comprehensive documentation of the Quarantine Walk Drawing (QWD) project, a series of drawings created on walks around San Francisco during the early part of the Covid 19 pandemic. The small drawings (46 in total) were all drawn in public and left in situ in neighborhoods at a walkable distance from Tubelle’s home in the Mission-Bernal area of SF. Tubelle periodically visited the drawings to document how they fared over time in terms of weathering (sun, rain, wind) and human factors (e.g. graffiti and vandalism).
The Quarantine Walk Drawing Map installation has a wall-sized (122 x 183 in.), hand-drawn pencil map representing the SF neighborhoods Tubelle visited on his walks (with wires radiating from a center nail, representing distance from his home), along with photos of the drawings showing their changes over time, plus data on the dates and locations.