Seeking isolation can lead to creativity and a deeper understanding of oneself, as these artworks show.
Tag: lockdown
‘Relationship Glasses’ Shape How We See the Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Our Partners
People create beliefs about their romantic partner that affect how they respond to them and interpret their behaviour. These beliefs can act as rose-tinted glasses, or as a darker …
Rewind
"The traditional lifestyle is no more irrational and arbitrary because the 'new normal' is the old customary."
A Year of Blursdays: How Coronavirus Distorted Our Sense of Time in 2020
My research shows how lockdown changed our perception of time this year – and holds clues for how we'll experience the wait for a vaccine in 2021.
My Amma Has a Smarter Phone
The way my mother has used her phone during the lockdown – to keep in touch with her enormous family and not scroll endlessly – has led me to …
Debris
A poem written from a world of darkness, with the will to find oneself again.
Why I’m Grateful for the Lockdown Despite Losing a Loved One
As a grieving sister, I would be lying if I said I am not grateful for the lockdown for bringing me closer to my brother during his last days.
Locked Down With My Abuser
On childhood abuse and the trauma that follows.
An Inside Job
What we’re after is attained not by manically altering things on the outside but by taking control of the inside.
Haven or Hell
A poem on the realities of being trapped indoors.