@giulia_zucchi

22 years old

Padova, Italy

How has your everyday-life changed? What do you do to fulfill your day?

If somebody asked me how I was thinking to spend my last year of school, I would have never thought that it was going to be like this. Everything was normal, and then, boom! My everyday life has been turned upside down: online classes, never-ending calls to prepare my thesis, audio-books and suddenly the day is over without that I even notice it. After the first two weeks, made of good intentions and enthusiasm, my laziness and procrastination took over.

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?

In these days of scheduling to fill the empty spaces, I realized that creativity is like bread. Bread is the final result of a process that takes days and to be cared, it is the only way in which it can become soft and crispy. Bread is not a simple thing, neither to underestimate; it needs to be cured, and creativity in the same way needs to be taken care of day by day, with many different hints. I am a very visual person, I need visual hints to stay alive, like images, like street-life. Over the years, I learned to take pictures of everything that i like or that I am curious of, and I ended up collecting thousands of pictures. Some of them doesn't really make sense, but they saved me. Photography is not just images, the let you re-live moments of your life, your thoughts and your feelings. In this sense, my gallery has always been my main hint when I am in the mood of new inspirations, to see things from a different perspective and develop my creative look.

What is your biggest fear right now?

To have spent much time and energies and not have the opportunity to make my efforts come to an end. I spent years dreaming my career, I dedicated myself day after day to this goal and to my passion for design, and now we don't know what tomorrow will look like. When I sleep, I often dream about a future that seems very far even if it is just right behind the corner, full of "if" and "but", but I do have one certainty: my passion will never fade away.

What will you do once all of this is over?

Everyday, I make long lists planning everything that I want to do, where I want to go, who I want to hug once we will be back to normal. I fear to forget everything that I love to do, so I take not of everything as a maniac, but it lets me travel with my fantasy. Weeks are passing by and I am not even thinking about which day it is, without countdown and without thinking to "freedom"; I don't have expectations, just dreams and hopes that make me go on.