A tiny invisible virus has forced me to pause and reflect upon my behavior and my lifestyle. Even when I talk about pre-pandemic, interpandemic or post pandemic worlds, the world hasn’t changed around me but my inner reality and my response to it has changed and that has made me look around the same world in a more conscious way or respond to it differently. Covid has affected me by dividing the world for me, into ‘I’ and ‘Them’. Curiosity battles with my inner fear, the absolute necessity of maintaining distance! Venturing out two months after the lockdown, I go down familiar paths, visit familiar places.
How has the world changed?
My project explored the quest of my identity in this ever-changing world around us that’s still the same. The videos explore how in a bigger sense and in a smaller detail, human interaction and I have come to an unconscious level of alertness and distance. I have set foot on a journey to reconnect myself with the most familiar and comfortable, in my hometown Multan, spaces where I have been before but this time with a purpose to observe them and connect with them in a post pandemic world.