Today on Abbey Road was a daily cartoon I drew during lockdown.
While the world grew quieter and stranger, I found a live webcam mounted above the famous Abbey Road crosswalk. This is the same crosswalk the Beatles immortalized on their album cover. It became my second window. While the world shut down, the stream kept going.
I kept it running on my second monitor. A moving painting in grayscale and fog. Something still happening, even if nothing else was. I watched people cross.
At first, only a few.
Then, slowly, more.
Midnight wanderers. Masked pairs. A man in a kilt, once. Lovers. Tourists pretending normal had returned. Ghosts.
I started drawing them. All hours of the day and night. Pen to paper, frame by frame. It gave shape to the hours and softened the silence. The webcam became my muse, my sanity, my strange little ritual. While the world scrolled endlessly through fear and misinformation, I stared at a crosswalk and made art out of whoever was brave or bored enough to walk across it.
Somehow, drawing strangers became a way to feel connected. To remember that life kept moving, even if we were all standing still.
