My Covid 19 Isolation

This short work is my memory and experience of when Covid 19 hit Italy hard. A dramatic economic situation and widespread fear of a pandemic of which little or nothing was known have resulted in feelings of great concern, isolation, loneliness and distress. I tried to survive through feeling for my family, but in my own way I gave myself the task in the forced segregation of taking pictures or creating collages every day in line with my experience. I sometimes clung to the memories of a carefree childhood or I often let myself go to extravagant dreamlike collages, which well represented my state of being troubled by a thousand uncertainties that often undermined my own identity. A world that I thought I knew (at least in part) suddenly collapsed and in a short time all of us were projected into an apocalyptic future. My greatest anguish, which I tried to exorcise through images, is linked to the younger generations, to my son, for whom I fear for a future that does not promise anything positive. A truth in total general uncertainty, however, is sacrosanctly certain: nothing will be the same again and we will all have to get used to a new lifestyle made up of social distancing, control and adjustment to an economic crisis that has hit the entire planet hard.