Sarah K. Swann

There Will Never Be Another Summer Like This

There Will Never Be Another Summer Like This 30 x 40 inches Acrylic on canvas Sarah Marris-Swann 2021 Washington Square Park on June 29, 2021. COVID restrictions had been lifted just 2 weeks prior following the first round of vaccinations, and New Yorkers reunited en masse in public parks to revel in the summertime and be together again for the first time in over a year. Meanwhile on the west coast, "unprecedented" wildfires raged, burning thousands of acres, an ominous reminder that the green summers of our childhood might someday never come again, and that while hot and smoky as this summer might be, we may never again experience another summer like this. There was a electrical, tenuous feeling of exaltation in the air, a feeling of reprieve and immense relief, overlaid with an impending sense of doom, like being in the eye of a hurricane. You can listen the song I wrote by the same title here.

There Will Never Be Another Summer Like This
30 x 40 inches
Acrylic on canvas
Sarah Marris-Swann
2021

Washington Square Park on June 29, 2021. COVID restrictions had been lifted just 2 weeks prior following the first round of vaccinations, and New Yorkers reunited en masse in public parks to revel in the summertime and be together again for the first time in over a year. Meanwhile on the west coast, “unprecedented” wildfires raged, burning thousands of acres, an ominous reminder that the green summers of our childhood might someday never come again, and that while hot and smoky as this summer might be, we may never again experience another summer like this. There was a electrical, tenuous feeling of exaltation in the air, a feeling of reprieve and immense relief, overlaid with an impending sense of doom, like being in the eye of a hurricane.

You can listen the song I wrote by the same title here.