Art & DesignAPR 27, 2020

21 Illustrations Of Quarantine Confessions That People Shared With Us

Quarantine Confessions and Aelita Senvaitytė

We are a creative and curious collection of international women from France, Canada, and America, banning together to memorialize this uniquely unifying experience throughout the world in the midst of a modern pandemic. By assembling a team of artists, designers, translators, and organizers, we thought to let the world tell their stories as we all go through our days in different, but strikingly similar ways throughout this lockdown. This was the genesis of the idea, at least.

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#1 "How Do You Feel?"

Illustration by Robabee Moinfar.

36points

On April 6th in Paris, France, we launched a project called "Quarantine Confessions" which had the ambition of gathering stories of people's experiences during the quarantine, to share with the world. We all know how good it feels to share our thoughts and feelings with others; especially in times like these when our isolation can lead to anxiety and loneliness. We then selected the most heartfelt, the funniest, the most poetic, and the most earnest excerpts and sent them to artists we knew for illustration. That’s very simply how this love chain started. Today, three weeks later, more than 50 artists have joined the adventure and are reinventing your stories to keep our spirits high, to help us smile and dream, and to remind us that we are not alone.

#2 "Desire For Solitude"

Illustration by Astrid de Nuit.

30points

"Quarantine Confessions" releases one quote and corresponding drawing a day, but it's not just a forum for sharing our experiences. It has become a community for shared experiences. We release a weekly playlist each Friday to dance to during quarantine, share suggestions on museums you can visit right from your living room, recommend shows and plays to watch laying in your bed and of course, we publish your illustrated shares daily to help us to reflect on our relationships to others, to ourselves, and to the planet. This collective consciousness focuses not just on how we as people, from different nations, with different languages and cultures and values, are sharing this moment together, but also encouraging us to think about what tomorrow can bring, and how each of us can do our part to create the world we want to live in, then and now.

#3 "How Did You Decide Who You'd Remain Under Quarantine With?"

Illustration by Sabrina Amara.

30points

Our ultimate goal, with a little help from our friends (the artists), is to enhance the beautiful moments of life, even in the darkest or scariest of times. What better way to leave a mark in our rush towards the future than to capture the beauty in the present, to be preserved forever?

#4 "How Did You Decide Who You'd Remain Under Quarantine With?"

Illustration by Mélanie Marasse.

30points

If you would like to be a part of this artistic journey, feel free to answer our survey (by the way, all submissions are anonymous) and you might just find one of your responses has become a masterpiece! There is power in each of us, our experiences, and our stories. You are our storytellers and our biggest source of inspiration!

#5 "What Did You Do First?"

Illustration by Solène Panné.

29points

Let’s stay home, stay safe, and continue to create. Feel free to spread the love and share the "Quarantine Confessions" with all your friends and families.