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COVID19 Journaling
Our Process
I was talking to Nana Mary in Sydney who loves to journal and create memories of moments. Being a historian, when she suggested we do a project together to document our journey of isolation, I jumped at the idea. Our family is dealing with a significant amount of challenges as we go through COVID19 in New York City. My husband being an ICU physician and an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn hospital is at the front line of this pandemic.
Nana Mary suggested we take a word daily and create a work of art that could be anything ranging from a reflection on what it means to you. Fill a page in any way you like: lettering, numbers, watercolor, acrylic, crayons, markers, pen/pencil drawing, poem, collage, stamping, stitching, paper making- whatever we wish for it to be. We began this journey with the word MASK.
We decided to do this journaling as a family- it has become our coping mechanism through the pandemic. In addition to doing it as a family, we invited friends who wanted to join us in this process. We are going to post our visual diary daily and include other entries that we receive from friends and family.
Contributors:
Ami, Aarav & Arshya: New York
Graeme & Mary Sullivan: Sydney, Australia
Jolanda Dranchak: Minnapolis, MN
Amita Rodman: New York/Rhode Island
(They appear in the same order in the blog)