How it feels when freedom is suddenly taken away from you, being confined to one space, with little access to friends and family is just a taste of the long-term daily life experience in jail. There is a deeply symbolic parallel to be drawn between imprisonment and the Covid-lockdown. The dogmas of the mind can be like prison walls. There’s a lot of controversy around empathising with convicted criminals. To be heard and seen is often a big step for this ’invisible’ community. The shared sense of imprisonment due lockdown may lead to empathy, compassion and understanding.
Will the covid19-crisis be the “reset" we think and dream it could be? An opportunity to stop, pause and start again, to courageously implement positive change to reform a rigid system that has lost track of humanity and lost touch with nature? Or, will it constrain previously acquired freedom and endorse a regime, a climate of division? In that context, this project is a prism through which to look for answers.
Photo: © Sanne De Wilde
