“I think art is an articulation of resilience. People create art through war and pandemics and hardship, and the work lives on for hundreds of years in museums or people’s homes,” Tatum Dooley, a Toronto writer who did the challenge,. “If I’m re-enacting a portrait of Simonetta Vespucci from the 1400s, she’s continuing to live on in the world, and maybe I will too.”
Life as we know it has been indefinitely suspended. That time when we huffed and complained about the dizzying speed at which it moved now feels very far away. Everything has slowed to a full stop, as if all the traffic lights in the world are red. It’s terrifying. It’s discouraging. But with the surplus of time we now have, it’s also comforting to see how people have weaved it into something golden.