I beg your pardon

What is it about rubber gloves? How do we protect ourselves in these times (or in any times) and how careful do we need to be? 

In these pieces, easy evidence and a hint of process is left behind on the paper. I'm still drawing, using graphite but this time rather than using oil pastels, I'm using water-based drawing media. Then I'm activating the drawing with the chance-based addition of water. I really don't want to be too careful. 

The text that I've chosen for these rubber glove pieces has been lifted from Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale. I hope that it's not too obvious to be using passages that were written during  the Middle Ages and at the time of Black Plague. And that I've chosen to quote the "pardoner" because he is considered to be the one character in Chaucer's Tales who was likely gay. But the truth is... we all seek safety, familiarity and comfort wherever and however we can find it.