Remote Sense

About the Series

When my dad was hospitalized in critical condition with Covid-19 for 41 days, I had no way of visiting him. He couldn't talk. He went into a coma. He got sepsis, pneumonia, and cytokine storm. Meanwhile I took care of the rest of my family while we all fought off Covid ourselves. I felt responsible for finding a cure and healing everyone, but there was nothing I could do. The stress increased the Covid, and I had to let go. 

Once I let go, it felt like something caught me. There were thousands of people who would write to me their support, and people began organizing around the world to send their thoughts, energy, prayers, and fasting. I felt like they had created this enormous network that I plugged into. I started to collect all of this energy, soaking it up, visualizing him healed, and in meditation with all of that, I would hold my dad in my heart. I knew that through sympathetic connection he would be able to receive this remote healing environment we had all collectively created for him. To further create some type of energetic antivirus, I started to draw.  

Through mirroring, webbing, and rippling, my drawings hold forms of sympathetic connection, harmonic networks, and resonance. I approach the archetypal horizon of formful possibility and echo its resonance into visional projections on paper. I draw to sense the vibrational networks from my experience of the pandemic in order to resonate healing.

On day 41, my dad surprised us all and was able to come home. I had doubts about healing through sympathetic connection, but I found more belief when he told me that throughout his time in the hospital I would visit him in his dreams.  

- Michael Nauert, 2020

About the Artist

Michael Nauert, born and working in Southern California, creates abstract oil paintings based on nature, resonance, and mind-space. Awarded with scholarships and grants to study at The School of the Art Institute, he received a BFA in 2017. He also studied at OxBow School of Art in 2015 and 2017. In 2014 Nauert was included in a group show at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and was a finalist for Murakami’s Kaikai Kiki co. show in Japan. In 2016 he was featured in New American Paintings (Issue 125). Then in 2018 he showed with Young Space for the first time in New York. Last year Nauert was published in the 2019 summer edition of Art Maze Magazine, and was interviewed for Friend of the Artist Magazine and Floorr Magazine. Additionally, he showed at Torrence Art Museum in Run Straight Through where he focused on nature-space and painting as a figure. Currently he is focused on drawings revolving around his experience with his father healing and family's recovery from the coronavirus.