Collected Item: “Desolation”
Give your story a title.
Desolation
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
photograph
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
The moment I saw this photo, I felt the profoundness of it. The New York subway system empty. Normally people would be walking through these gates, flooding the long hall between trains and destinations. The thing that strikes me more than the emptiness is the long tunnel leading to the exit. Well over 100 feet long the tunnel seems to go on forever, a feeling that mimics the endless period of the covid lockdown. It just felt as if it would never end, and now, looking at the tunnel I feel a sense of sadness, as if a year of my life was wasted, one that no matter how much I try to forget, I cannot.
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#subway #empty #lockdown #covid-19 #sadness #desolation
Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=166961504965430&set=a.166961354965445
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Author Unknow. From the CSI Public History Coronavirus Chronicle
Give this story a date.
2020-07-27