In May 2021, while the world was still trying to recover from the Covid pandemic, British artist David Hockney presented his exhibition The Arrival of Spring. Normandy, 2020, dozens of hours of meticulous work he devoted to capturing — on his iPad using the Brushes app — the essence of the changing seasons while the world was confined by tragedy. True to form, he did not give up on either innovation or joy.

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As with so many stories, the outbreak of violence this week in Belfast can be told through the lens of a single street. Lendrick Street is in the east of the Northern Irish city. A straight line of barely 200 meters. Modest two-story brick houses, aligned in that Georgian style where only the door and windows mark the different homes that occupy the continuous walls on both sides of the road.

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