@michelecima

21 years old

Bergamo, Italy

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

I am lucky to have to take online classes everyday, so that my life has stayed more or less the same as it was. Since I must stay at home, I am saving for myself the time it took me to go to university. I use this time to be with my family and focus on topics that I am passionate about.

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?

The feeling that feeds the most my creativity during this lockdown is the impossibility to explore the world and meet new cultures, that makes me wonder of how it will be to travel and meet new people once this pandemic will be finally over. Our relationship with things and people around us will be very much different. I hope that we will all be more helpful and that we will carry each other towards a new, better future.

What is your biggest fear right now?

To loose people that I love, people that are very much exposed to the virus. This is the biggest and most practical fear. At the same time, I am reacting trying to spend more time possibile with them, even in we can only meet virtually: it helps me to spare some lights on my lockdown.

What will you do once all of this is over?

The post-Coronavirus future that I am imagining is very positive. It is positive because, despite all the difficulties we will have to front, I think that this period made us reflect a lot about our lifestyle, that was very frenetic, and allowed us to rediscover the pleasure of the small little things. My hope is that people will all be much more in solidarity to each other and that creativity will be the instrument to develop new solutions and make our activities more ethical and enjoyable.