In the pandemic era, my work turned public. I made hundreds of old-school, hand drawn animation drawings. Digitizing these and privately publishing the finished animations online, I was able to “install” the resulting online artworks into physical public spaces using laminated, QR codes. These artworks, I called “site specific animation,” gamified art by engaging the viewer in its unveiling.

In September 2020, for the city-wide, artist-run fair, MAIDENLA, I geographically dispersed my artworks in the part of LA that I had been a renting in for the last six years (Inglewood, CA). I hoped to create a symbiotic, remunerative relationship between creative food entrepreneurs and myself. I wondered, in combining the art patron with the food patron, could I harness a small slice of the art world in LA to support local Black-owned businesses during a particularly rough time in history? The businesses who were into the idea, in turn, provided me with a temporary venue for my work, an opportunity to experiment with a crude, DIY method of augmented reality, and the good feelings associated with trying to provide a social good. Not having much control of whether the intervention would be very financially helpful to the businesses, I focused my energy on designing artwork that would provide a humorous diversion from the exhaustion and the sadness of the time. Attendees of the art fair were able to find my six site specific artworks by following a web linked map that I made for the art fair website.