Terry Chatkupt is a visual artist whose current show at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California is about how his family managed through the 2020 lockdown. This podcast was started, in part, to address some of the reporting on adolescent mental health in the aftermath of the pandemic that was sorely lacking. Stories in mainstream media missed an opportunity to interview young people and instead turned to experts who had little knowledge of childhood grief. So I was excited to do an episode addressing the pandemic from the perspective of one man, interviewing his kids and investigating how it affected his own family. The show conveys Terry's appreciation of our local environment of Pasadena and the privilege of having a safe place to live. We also discuss some of Terry's earlier work about his parents and their experience emigrating to the Midwest from Thailand in the 1970s, before Terry was born. Terry is also a teacher, so we talked about what we have observed in our students as well as our families and what it may mean for an entire generation to have missed some crucial parts of their social and emotional development as a result of the isolation we all endured for a time.
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Special thanks to Josephine Wiggs for the song "Time Does Not Bring Relief" from her album "We Fall."
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