Diner Dream with a Side of Corona © 2022, Gordon Murray

Deep in the labyrinth of shapes from this 1950s lunch counter, is a small cluster of COVID viruus—placed there by Murray as a reminder, time waits for no one. As he beckons our perspective inward, the drawn ink outlines and atoms seem to cling to the shapes like metal particles to a magnet. The constellation that emerges before our eyes begins to resemble a hidden cellular universe, teeming with life—as if all is being viewed with an electron microscope.

Traversing one of the boomerang-shaped membranes, is Murray’s handwritten big-band song lyric from Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians—“Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)" Guy, and his band-mate brothers, billed themselves as creating, "The sweetest music this side of Heaven."

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as a wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it's later than you think.