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Creative COVID Response Collection

The Creative COVID Response Collection consists of digital representations of over 100 creative canvas works created by UTSC students in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Responses include artwork, digital art, poems, photographs, and more.

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Floral Mind Map
Title:

Floral Mind Map

Description:
There are five components of this drawing which I have related to my personal experience living in the time of COVID-19. Petal one looks at tricking the brain into thinking that I am happy under this tense pandemic situation. Petal two looks at…
Floral Mind Map

Floral Mind Map
Reflective Drawing
Title:

Reflective Drawing

Description:
I have spent most of my days indoors looking out to the world through my window or the screen on my computer. Therefore, I chose to represent the following series of images through my window. Starting with the top left corner, I drew one mask away from…
Reflective Drawing

Reflective Drawing
Pressed Herbaria
Title:

Pressed Herbaria

Description:
In the COVID-19 quarantine period, I picked up a new hobby of pressing leaves and flowers. From those plants, I assembled the image above. At the bottom of the picture, there are older leaves of a lighter shade that are dying. As you make your way up,…
Pressed Herbaria

Pressed Herbaria
Reflective Collage
Title:

Reflective Collage

Description:
Before the devastating COVID-19 pandemic emerged, my understanding of health and illness was predominately biomedical as I believed that health was only the absence of disease. However, health is not limited to physical health as the balance of emotional…
Reflective Collage

Reflective Collage
Reflective Drawing
Title:

Reflective Drawing

Description:
Relating to COVID-19, the learning of the spread of illness and the sociological theories inspired me to create this artwork. All people are responsible for their own health and others, and most people want to try to protect themselves, and their…
Reflective Drawing

Reflective Drawing
Perspective Drawing
Title:

Perspective Drawing

Description:
On the surface level, I wanted to portray not just myself but possibly many other students during the pandemic. I wanted to express how it feels to watch the seasons roll past me as I remain isolated, and sacrificing things around me for the sake of…
Perspective Drawing

Perspective Drawing
Reflective Poster
Title:

Reflective Poster

Description:
My painting represents the need for multiple disciplinary perspectives to work together and share theories and methods to reach the same goal of reducing COVID-19 cases and helping those who have been affected. For example, the perspective of health…
Reflective Poster

Reflective Poster
Mind Map
Title:

Mind Map

Description:
During this pandemic, my perspective on the world we live in changed greatly. I drew the most important things to me that played a role in changing my perspective the past couple months. First, I drew the heart with arms around it to represent self love…
Mind Map

Mind Map
Digital Artwork
Title:

Digital Artwork

Description:
I decided to express my emotions and thoughts on the global pandemic through the form of digital art. For the background, I blended a gradient of grey and orange to show that although this is a depressing time, there is still hope awaiting us in the…
Digital Artwork

Digital Artwork
Self-Portrait
Title:

Self-Portrait

Description:
The picture I drew best depicts my understanding of this year. First, I drew myself in the picture to represent how I'm feeling. The drama masks at the bottom represent the emotions that I've gone through as a first-year student who is studying…
Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait
Reflective Drawing
Title:

Reflective Drawing

Description:
I decided to draw myself inside my new bubble that has been created over the course of the past three months in lockdown. The elements that I decided would make up my bubble were my learning outlets such as pads of paper, writing tools, my computer, and…
Reflective Drawing

Reflective Drawing
Pandemic Timeline
Title:

Pandemic Timeline

Description:
Before the pandemic, I didn't realize just how multifaceted health truly was. To illustrate this, I decided to overlap three circles that represent each model of health. I believe that each model is essential to our survival in their own unique ways…
Pandemic Timeline

Pandemic Timeline
Saitha's 2020: COVID-19 Edition
Title:

Saitha's 2020: COVID-19 Edition

Description:
The graphs scattered throughout the canvas represent how we as a society were handling COVID. The cases were rising, and then they were finally low enough for us to go back outside, and then they were at record high numbers again because people stopped…
Saitha's 2020: COVID-19 Edition

Saitha's 2020: COVID-19 Edition
Comparative Drawing
Title:

Comparative Drawing

Description:
​​My drawing showcases how much more knowledgeable I am about health than before. When the pandemic first hit, I looked at everything in such a negative way because I had to change my lifestyle. Mental health was an issue, and I was sad and unmotivated…
Comparative Drawing

Comparative Drawing
Perspective Painting
Title:

Perspective Painting

Description:
To briefly describe the painting, the woman is my aunt, a nurse, and she is watching a broadcast of the former president of the USA, Donald Trump, who is taking off his mask in front of millions of his supporters while infected with COVID-19. I chose to…
Perspective Painting

Perspective Painting
Reflective Drawing
Title:

Reflective Drawing

Description:
In my creative representation of my evolving understanding of health during the pandemic, I interpreted it in different ways. I have included a flower with a virus as well as a doctor watering it. This represents doctor-patient relationship as well as…
Reflective Drawing

Reflective Drawing
Comparative Drawing
Title:

Comparative Drawing

Description:
My understanding of health has changed significantly compared to before. I have realized that the concept of health can be subjected to and be controlled by concepts including culture, economics and politics, the psychology of behaviour, and also…
Comparative Drawing

Comparative Drawing
Photographic Collage
Title:

Photographic Collage

Description:
This collage represents several aspects of my new life during the COVID-19 pandemic. My lifestyle has been the same for the past couple of years. As a type 1 diabetic, routine is super important to be able to keep up with a healthy life. The images I…
Photographic Collage

Photographic Collage
The New Sense of Society
Title:

The New Sense of Society

Description:
There are six disciplinary lenses, and five models of health. The disciplinary lens allows us to be able to look at a certain topic in six different themes: human biology, history, health geography or environmental health, medical anthropology, sociology…
The New Sense of Society

The New Sense of Society
Mental Health Mind Map
Title:

Mental Health Mind Map

Description:
My drawing is about how our mental health is being affected during this pandemic. Some of the factors which influence us include stress, personality, IQ, physical health, social skills, coping skills, depression, grief, self esteem, panic, relationships…
Mental Health Mind Map

Mental Health Mind Map
Reflective Sketch
Title:

Reflective Sketch

Description:
When looking at our respective environments, many people are scared of the unknown. Health psychology looks at how people think and behave when it comes to health and illness. During this time, COVID cases can increase depending on one's geographic…
Reflective Sketch

Reflective Sketch
Comparative Painting
Title:

Comparative Painting

Description:
My painting represents the concept of environmental racism. The left side of the painting shows a gloomy environment with factories and smoke to represent the pollution it causes. I used dark colors for the sky and grass to represent how gloomy that side…
Comparative Painting

Comparative Painting
Reflective Drawing: 20
Title:

Reflective Drawing: 20

Description:
I decided to draw the number twenty because it represented this whole year. The two described the waves we faced, and for zero, it has shown the beginning of 2020, simple and smooth sailing. The number twenty is filled with collections of concepts and…
Reflective Drawing: 20

Reflective Drawing: 20
Reflective Collage
Title:

Reflective Collage

Description:
With the uprising of COVID-19, the purpose of my collage was to demonstrate the sudden shift in learning through the use of technology. Thanks to online learning, I now have a critical understanding of some of the many disciplinary perspectives that…
Reflective Collage

Reflective Collage
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Publisher: University of Toronto Scarborough Library
Date Created
2020-11
Language
English
Resource Type
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Description
The Creative COVID Response Collection consists of digital representations of over 100 creative canvas works created by UTSC students in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Responses include artwork, digital art, poems, photographs, and more.
Physical Form
electronic resource
Extent
156 objects
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