I’ll get straight to the point Covid made us appreciate all of the things and people in our lives that, up until that point, most people had taken for granted; everyone from the NHS, other key workers including shop workers, post people, bus drivers and medical and delivery drivers (just to name a few). This idea is actually what kicked off my ongoing series of short stories called Everyday Heroes Doing Thankless Jobs:
https://themancyank.blogspot.com/2021/08/short-stories-everyday-heroes-doing.html
Gratitude Manchester, which is on display outside The Central Library until Sunday 12th,
https://thisisgratitude.co.uk/
is a free exhibit that features beautiful Oscar statue- like sculptures painted by various artists representing different heroes and aspects of the pandemic, everything from our reconnection with nature, to our connections maintained through technology to the people we loved and appreciated through the highest and lowest points of the past year and a half.
Looking forward you can expect art to
change drastically, as in lockdown films about pandemics were coming out (bad timing
Hollywood) and we saw musicians and artists (whose livelihood and means of financial support was completely stopped
during Covid) find new and different ways to get their art to the the people who could no
longer get out to see it.
I’m predicting that with Covid being far
from over (despite lockdown being over) we are witnessing the start of a new
artistic renaissance, since a lot of people found their voices during a time
when we were not being listened to or were not able to speak.
And on that note, I’m going to let some of my
pictures do the talking, just in case you can’t get out to see them.
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