Anastasia Marčelja
NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
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Design, Year 3
23 years old
Fiume, Croatia
How has your everyday-life changed? What do you do to fulfill your day?
By the time we are not affected by the external frenetic life in our home, the reconciliation with myself was spontaneous and has achieved a balance. I spend more time contemplating especially about the elements that surround me, animating its resources. I spend my time starting from the elaborations of some internal spaces and new uses of elements to culinary experimentation creative expression on canvas and paper. I had the time to finish some graphic projects and to feed my literature and botanic passions, which have drawn me to elaborate my thesis project.
Your work is built on creativity. While we’re all in quarantine, what is your solution to keep on being creative? Where do you find your inspiration in this moment?
I find inspirations to stimulate my creativity inside, in my thoughts and desires, as well in the elements that surround me and the activities I do. Finally I find it also in the adventure spirit to discover the unknown which is physically imposed by the quarantine.
What is your biggest fear right now?
I am worried about not seeing my family and the people I love for a long time and as well for the people whose are not able to adapt to the present and try to living in the past and have fear of the future.
What will you do once all of this is over?
The future might bring an exaggerated obsession for the hygiene caused by the continuous sanitary recommendations. The ones who will loose their mind panicking will extinguish while the people who will deal in the right way the isolation will become stronger. Unfortunately younger generations might suffer the most because their lack of resilience and the fact they could easily adapt themselves to the isolation having difficulties to approach future reality. I hope this won’t happen, if people start living the present, seeding the ideas that slowly will grow with the individual, who is the maker of the destiny of life on Earth.