Brooke Johnson's Art

Lucia is quarantining during the early days of Covid-19. She can't go out to the laundromat and has exhausted her wardrobe so is now doing laundry in her bathtub while listening to tragic opera.

Lucia in Lockdown began with the wooden shoe forms in the late March of 2020, when no one really knew what was going on, and we had to do the best we could. I didn’t know who was going to come out of those shoes, but as I had just returned from Portugal and was required to remain in 2-week isolation, my experience of doing laundry in the bathtub translated into this vulnerable passionate character who was momentarily lifted out of her drudgery by listening to the sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor.