All images © Rafael Gonzales Jr.
In Pandemic Lotería, drawing “La Cabrona” actually might be key to winning the game. San Antonio-based artist has been sharing his COVID-19-themed cards on that are based on the Mexican card game , which functions similarly to bingo. The deck features the realities of quarantined life, from a stockpile of toilet paper to continual Zoom calls to a lone bottle of hand sanitizer. Each now ubiquitous image is paired with a humorous name like “La Quaran15” for a barrel of butter and “La Starbucks” underneath a home coffee maker. The artist’s light-hearted work is available as prints and t-shirts through . (via )
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