Personally speaking, the pandemic only changed some aspects of my life. Because I was a teenager, my personality, perception of the world and other essential skills developed then.
On the other hand, when I look back and remember moments when there was no pandemic, I feel that our lives were easier, happier and looser. By “looser” I mean that we now have a lot of restrictions and taboos on certain things, like always using hand-sanitizer, air-ventilating different spaces and doing Covid tests every time we feel unwell. Those paranoiac senses will stay with several generations for years. But then I realize that our lives were not like this two years ago. We could freely hug each other, go to a concert with a big crowd near the stage and kiss a stranger there.
So on my artwork, I demonstrated my feeling after finally getting out of lockdown and starting to live a “normal life”. It is the same no more. My life feels like I cannot see the whole image, something is interrupting me. This symbolizes my struggling with going back to live my past life, when I have to start a new one. So I hide, do not look around entirely and feel sad about it.