Xindi 2020
Hey guys, I hope you’re doing well.
Physically I’m stuck in a hotel right now, and it’s my 11st day of the 14-days official quarantine. The hotel is decent and most of the staff here are nice. The staff comes to my room to check on me twice a day; the food delivers when there is a knock on my door; the corridor is always dead silent. Here, I can find almost any life supply I want physically, and yesterday, the staff even sent a note saying “If you need emotional support, please call x.”
Emotionally I’m doing well. Although I don’t feel great about losing senior spring and commencement which I totally waited for almost 4 years, I am keeping in touch with all my friends and we are trying to take care of each other. My province government really did a great job this time to keep us safe, keep the cities safe and I deeply appreciate that. Although I’m alone in the hotel room right now and am aware of the deadly virus out there, I feel secured.
Creatively, because I have so much free time to do whatever I want, I am preparing for an online internship interview, at the same time writing a character backstory for my film project. So I’m keeping myself busy and learning new things as an artist.
Be safe and healthy out there!
Physically, being out of the quarantine is a special experience, even more special than being quarantined.
When I got out of the quarantine, everything seems totally different to me than what I remembered. Before, all of the buildings, the trees, and the pedestrians were blended together, vaguely, just as the faded background of my life. However, after the quarantine, every object in the city seems so vivid and alive. That is when I realized I often focus on the negativity that the virus has brought too much, I need to remind me, and the people of the things in life that we often ignore but are in fact, acting as great hope.
Because I am home, there are more materials for me to create. I started my postcard project of remembering the hope in the crisis using iPad through Procreate and took Polaroid and digital photo of the random corners of the city to keep the memory fresh of what it is like during the Coronavirus. As I still have schoolwork to complete for the last few weeks, I have not finished my vision for the postcards as a set, but I will continue to create as I observe more.
