Slow time

Abstract

The essay portrays daily life in Bercine, southern part of Bucarest, Romania, during the lockdown. The pictures presented here are part of my observations of the life in front. People that are my neighbours, acquaintances and with whom I shared my life as well. As so, I decided to present the pictures in a form of photo-board in order to put together shared experiences. This essay is not a study of daily life under quarantine, or how life is in a certain period of our time. It may be an effect, but not its reason. Rather, it attempts to portray life in a small-scale. Such small-scale is made up of daily routines and experiences of cleaning, talking, waiting as well as feelings of solidarity, solitude, fear and sometimes hope. It is the idea of shared experience that turns silence and waiting not as a singular experience, but a communal space, as is the daily life in a building