Politico 2020: Artist draw life under Corona virus

  • Sandra Grbić

This is an illustration featured in Politico newspaper in 2020, regarding the new life under corona virus. I made this piece as a way to express the anxious state of mind that I find myself in these days, as the news keeps coming, and as we in Serbia slowly but surely shift from an apathetic attitude to one rather more serious about the coronavirus threat. Cooped up in my dorm room, I’m making every effort to keep things as clean as possible with what I have on hand. Panic-buying all around me has made it impossible to stock up on disinfectants. But germs are everywhere, and it only takes one slip-up: Coming from the unclean outside world, picking up a sandwich, touching your phone. But wait, did I clean the screen? Did I just catch the virus? I’m cleaning all the time, but the unease lingers.