What is it like to live through the Covid-19 pandemic? During the past 16 months, we have been going through a dark and difficult time and trying to survive and live in a Covid world. Except for the scary virus, many of us are dealing with even more challenges in different aspects of our life: the coronavirus anxiety, loneliness or physical pain… Day after day, we start to feel terrified by meeting new people, try to stay and work from home, hugging and hand shanking can be “life threating”, we see less smile but a more suspicious and distant soul through each one’s eyes. Like many others, as a foreigner living alone throughout the quarantine, I have no choice but face the endless wave of questions and tests during the past months: How much stress my body and mind can handle? How I behave when I am facing the true loneliness? What is my deepest fear? What I most value in my life? What is love? The months of solitude leaves me time and space to see my strength and flaws under a microscope, to revalue the various kinds of relationships I have, to realize, observe and think about the way I look at the present and future. We are still going though probably one of the hardest time in our lifetime, however, tough time never last. I want to keep these memories and stories (from myself as well as from people around me) with my drawings like I did in my NYC Diary. I probably won’t be able to update this series as fast as I did before, but I will be persistent and try my best. If we get survived in the end, look our reflection in the mirror, I am hoping that I could see the light, peace and hope shining in the darkness. (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMztT5HhqJw/?igshid=1v79f8974y5tq
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