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An oil painting on canvas. There are about five bodies of varying skin tones intertwined in a fight. They are all wearing gray colored shorts, some of them shirtless, and one wearing a tan colored sweater. The people are wearing white tennis shoes with different countries' flags on them. Within the fight are the flags for Italy, United States, United Kingdom, and Bolivia. One of the people in the fight has their arm stretched to the left side, holding a burning white shoe with the flag of India by a shoelace in their blue gloved hand. Scattered in front of the people are more white shoes with the flags for France, Germany, Philippines, Mexico, Brazil, and the Netherlands. To the bottom left is an open red shoebox with a white shoe that has the flag of China and a white COVID mask.
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Art of Resilience 7
Marites van Vianen
Art of resilience means we are capable of doing things in a positive way, we put it into art everything what we feel and being aware of what is happening during this pandemic despite that we are sad, depress or we have anxiety because of sudden confinement.
It embodies the crisis we face through different countries fighting to survive during the early impact of the Covid19 Pandemic.
I included my home country Philippines as the nation’s healthcare falters amid covid-19 and faces another challenge-food shortage. The severity of our current crisis is indicated by the extreme uncertainty as to how or when it will end.
