VIRUS

During pandemic, I often felt drown in uncertainty and anxiousness whenever I'm reading the news or got news of loss from family and friends. Inspite of the bad news, there was one article that were different from the others, and it sparks new perspective on how I see the virus. It was about a scientist behind some of the best coronavirus images, Elizabeth Fischer. In Time Magazine, She stated that "Virus are very elegant, and they're not malicious in and of themselves. They're just doing what they do." This rises my curiosity about virus and microorganism, of how she sees a scenery that no one else sees. In my frame series (titled Something in the air, First of the gang, and Rise above), I tried to make some sort of scenery that reflects my feelings during that time, borrowing the shape of how I interpret virus and bacteria in a macramé world. Through this series, I want to explore microorganism and virus in its beauty to reminds myself that we are part of a complex world, and getting close to these small unseen things, helps me value simple everyday actions more, as simple as breathing. It was my escape from anxiety and made me come to a conclusion that we humans are like a virus too, trying to live and survive in this vast universe.