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Collected Item: “COVID-19: end date unknown A Chronicle in collages”

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COVID-19: end date unknown A Chronicle in collages

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Collages, with some text. I created the collages myself and compiled the pdf file

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I have created collages for several years now, but living in lockdown as of March 17, 2020 gave this creative outlet a whole new importance in my life.

It started as a bit of lark, when a new colleague and I shared with each other that we both had creative outlets. I shared my first COVID-19 collage with her, she shared the painting she had made, and that simple act gave me the impetus to continue using this creative outlet as a way of thinking about my experience of life in lockdown.

I learned of your digital archive via an interview on CBC radio’s The Current, and I wrote about it (and similar “witnessing” projects) on my blog (link to blog is live in the attached pdf).

I have ten pieces in this “end-date unknown” series; I produced none in May due to a family health crisis, since happily resolved. I returned to it in June, producing what is at the moment the last, though likely not the final, entry.

Living in lockdown,
with hope,
Amanda Le Rougetel
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
June 23, 2020

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#CovidChronicles, #creativity, #imagination

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Amanda Le Rougetel

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2020-06-23T17:27
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