José Padilla

José Padilla is a self-taught sculptor and painter who uses mixed media, acrylics, and watercolors. José has been creating art for years, but this is his first time sharing his talent with a wider audience. José shares his art as part of the NADC's COVID-19 Artist Storytelling project. The image below is a photograph of the original acrylic on canvas measuring 14” (width) by 18” (height). Each diamond represents another loss to the pandemic. José spent a year adding these symbols of lives lost. When the lives lost became overwhelming, we were in “Pandemonium.”