Drawing the Lockdown - a (longish) graphic exploration
The day after the first lockdown was announced in India, a flurry of messages started coming in from people known and less known. Messages of concern, gentleness, empathy. It felt urgent to capture this- how amidst the uncertainty and fear, the overriding instinct was to reach towards each other in tenderness. It felt as if we were writing our history in every moment we leaned across walls, windows, time-space to ask “how are you?”.
(March 25th 2020)
I am an illustrator and theatre practitioner currently based in Delhi, and living alone. When the first twenty five days of isolation were announced, my immediate strongest instinct was to draw what I was feeling. The strangeness of it. The unstable sense of reality.
(March 28th 2020- the first in the Crow series)
I began one of the most ...
