February 19, 2021 Ava Jackson ’20 believes that artists are examiners. Artists are constantly taking in the world around them, watching how it works and determining how it could be reflected in art. During a pandemic, though, options for watching the outside world have been limited. “Everything exists in this different context,” said Jackson in a Zoom interview with the Orient. “It’s really hard to be grounded in reality because we’re losing some sense of what that is for each other—we’re all existing in isolation.” Jackson graduated from Bowdoin in May with a major in anthr...