Travis, Jennifer, Hazel, and Lila with Hugo, Poncho, and Queenie

A family of four: a bearded man holding a cat in a light cap leans casually, a woman with short curly hair, and two girls seated on concrete steps stand on the porch of a brick home.

These days, Travis is doing homeschooling, in addition to his regular job: helping people make chicken coops, and selling chickens and chicken feed. Travis expects many of his current new customers to become long-term clients.

Jennifer is still working full time, but now half the time from home. As a social worker who works with veterans, she is used to checking on people in person. Now she does it through tele-visits.

Audio Transcript

Travis:

I would like to live in an America that takes the threat of climate change seriously and works towards doing as much as we can to mitigate the effects of that.

Jennifer:

I want to live in an American where our concern is about what is good for the whole, um, including the earth and with less emphasis on what people produce and those kinds of things, but what is good for everyone.

Hazel:

I want to live in an America where we are kind to other countries and where we have equal rights.

Lexington in the Time of COVID-19 is an artwork about people practicing social distancing at a time of a deadly virus. And also offering kindness.

Kurt Gohde and Kremena Todorova capture photographs at the periphery of American culture, where drag queens, discarded couches, and abandoned motel signs exist.