Art Project: Making and Destroying a COVID-19 Virus Model

Step 1. Use some orange clay left over from your bust of Trump (see previous post).  Add blue food coloring to make it gray.  Drink alcohol as needed, because this is going to get gross.

Step 2. Mix blue food coloring into clay, and add red if it turns too green.  Oh man!  It looks like horribly wrong baby poop!  But that's fitting, since it's left over from Trump, and we're making a model of another disgusting thing.  See what I meant about gross?

Step 3.  Mix clay until it is a uniform color, roll it into a ball, and then start poking holes all over it.

Step 4.  Once it's riddled with holes, sprinkle baby powder on it to create that mottled, cement like, surface look.

Step 5. Get some of those paper ad flyers that you were saving in case you ran out of toilet paper, and cut red triangles out of them.

Step 6. Fold the red paper triangles in half.

Step 7. Bend the wide ends of the paper triangles flat, so that that they look sort of like golf T's.

Step 8.  Poke the sharp ends into the holes of the grey orb.

Step 9.  Continue filling the holes until you have created a ballpark hideous image of the COVID-19 virus.

Step 10.  Now pretend that this is an actual COVID-19 virus--the granddaddy of them all. Ball your hand into a fist so tight and angry that the veins pop out, place it above that sucker like a hammer, and pound the crap out of it.

Step 11. Enjoy the result. Hope that your metaphorical actions actually affect this "novel" virus and have a ripple effect that renders it impotent.

Incidentally, this is now a model of an "attenuated" virus--one so damaged that it cannot function but which still contains the unique materials that if placed in a vaccine, could trigger an immune response in the body to fight off an intact virus.  

Let's all hope that the real world version of this is coming soon!  

Be safe and healthy.  Make the best of what you have. Live long and prosper!