A Year Inside is a catalog of works by Leslie Parke painted in the time of COVID between 1 March 2020 and 19 March 2021. Almost every painting made during this time was either black or gray. With all of the paintings in this series there is a sense that the painting is a membrane and through these paintings you can pass into another universe a passageway through to the other side. And the other side is really our internal world and our sense of the universe.