On April 6th in Paris, France, we launched a project called "Quarantine Confessions" which had the ambition of gathering stories of people's experiences during the quarantine, to share with the world. We all know how good it feels to share our thoughts and feelings with others; especially in times like these when our isolation can lead to anxiety and loneliness. We then selected the most heartfelt, the funniest, the most poetic, and the most earnest excerpts and sent them to artists we knew for illustration. That’s very simply how this love chain started. Today, three weeks later, more than 50 artists have joined the adventure and are reinventing your stories to keep our spirits high, to help us smile and dream, and to remind us that we are not alone.
"Quarantine Confessions" releases one quote and corresponding drawing a day, but it's not just a forum for sharing our experiences. It has become a community for shared experiences. We release a weekly playlist each Friday to dance to during quarantine, share suggestions on museums you can visit right from your living room, recommend shows and plays to watch laying in your bed and of course, we publish your illustrated shares daily to help us to reflect on our relationships to others, to ourselves, and to the planet. This collective consciousness focuses not just on how we as people, from different nations, with different languages and cultures and values, are sharing this moment together, but also encouraging us to think about what tomorrow can bring, and how each of us can do our part to create the world we want to live in, then and now.
#3 "How Did You Decide Who You'd Remain Under Quarantine With?"
Our ultimate goal, with a little help from our friends (the artists), is to enhance the beautiful moments of life, even in the darkest or scariest of times. What better way to leave a mark in our rush towards the future than to capture the beauty in the present, to be preserved forever?
#4 "How Did You Decide Who You'd Remain Under Quarantine With?"
If you would like to be a part of this artistic journey, feel free to answer our survey (by the way, all submissions are anonymous) and you might just find one of your responses has become a masterpiece! There is power in each of us, our experiences, and our stories. You are our storytellers and our biggest source of inspiration!
Let’s stay home, stay safe, and continue to create. Feel free to spread the love and share the "Quarantine Confessions" with all your friends and families.
#11 "Has Your Relationship Changed Since The Lockdown Started?"
