Quarantined Artist - How I'm Spending My Quarantine Contest Entry

Week 1

A day after a case was confirmed in our country, we had to suspend the classes and we were advised to stay at home if there's no unnecessary agenda outside. I could say our country is pretty late with confirming the case but pretty sure we have more than 1 already but we lack testing kits so we can't detect it early.

After this was announced, I predicted this isn't going to be better in the next few weeks so I went to the art shop and bought the materials that I will need in case everything will be halted. I knew I made a good choice.

Alcohols and hand sanitizers sold out fast because of some fucking hoarders trying to sell them 25x the original price. We don't stack up on toilet paper because we use water and soap to clean our ass after taking a shit so they are pretty abundant here. Grocery stores were packed with people panic buying.

Week 2

Classes as well as work are suspended during the second week of the community quarantine. The virus spread pretty fast and we already had a hundred confirmed cases. Our city canceled some flights and stores are closed for good. Only the grocery stores, dry market, and pharmacies are open during this time.

Social distancing was mandated for everyone, even in public transportation. It is nearly impossible to impose social distancing in public transportation but the drivers found a way by taping boxes in each seat, with a sign not to sit on them. Since the drivers are going to have less income for this, the government gave them cash to make up for it.

Tiktok

In an effort to make the people stay inside their homes, our city started a Tiktok challenge where they have to make Tiktok videos based on the theme for that day. Cellular load will be given as a prize each day for the winners. Of course, they have to film it at home.

Quarantine pass and curfew

In some cities, they imposed quarantine passes where only one family member can only go out and buy supplies. Since this is Philippines, we live with our parents, sometimes with other relatives too, so we had to be strict with the going out-going in rule.

In our city though, we aren't having those passes yet since it is not found necessary as of the moment for us.

I believe the government is giving out food packs and some cash to the daily wage earners.

We are having our curfew here as well.

In our family, my dad goes out often since he works in the military. He does the groceries and other stuff outside so everybody else gets to stay home.

So what do I do to kill the time?

The usual. I am a full-time artist and I rarely go out so this stay at home isn't something new to me. I just make art, either painting or some digital stuff. Nothing has changed.

With my artmaking though, I tried a few things.

I bought an odorless mineral spirit and a gas mask for me to experiment with painting. I kept on delaying this since I know the solvent is not gonna have a nice smell even though it is odorless. Well even if it says odorless, there's still gonna be some harmful particles in the air that I don't want to inhale. I'm liking the effects on it visually so far, I just don't like the odor.

I filmed the process of painting too so I can compile them later on and have some nice content. :D

I'm experimenting on GIF art

Since I got into Makersplace, I made some GIF art too and tokenized them on the platform. Hey! I sold my first work!

Days later, I sold two of my works too and I'm happy! So yeah, I'm starting on some NFT and I'm becoming active on Twitter cos I need to market my crypto art there since the collectors are hanging out on that platform.

So yeah, that's how I spend my quarantine days. Pretty boring yeah? :p That's what I do! Always inside.

Hope you're enjoying your days and stay safe!