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Life Post SARS-CoV-2? (Lisa Parrott with Kinjia Hinterland) Our COVID video series continues!

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This year, we've seen it all from a global pandemic to discrimination, and systemic racism and it is our hope that we can use art to begin the process of healing.

Below are resources to help City employees navigate this unique time. #NYCStrong

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COVID affects our lives, but NOT our love of life and each other. Love can exist in times of uncertainty.

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2020 has been a year of struggle, loss, and challenge and it has also been a year of community, heroes, self-reflection, recognition of injustice and power. NYC will rise up and be stronger for our shared experience.

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Human beings helping human beings. If we take one thing from this pandemic, let it be the value we have for each other as human beings and the power we can have collectively when working together. We are always bettER togethER!

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Throughout 2020 I was constantly faced with new, shocking information, to which my only response could be "WTF".

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No one anticipated, or was prepared. The loss of life, dreams and relationship in this year has frighten us and burden us all. "One nation under God....with liberty and justice for all"....

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One day, while en route to my office in Long Island City, I looked up at the sky peeking out above the subway platform & I was blown away by the gift of of this spectacular sunrise. One week later, COVID-19 closed-down the city & my job...I haven’t been on the #7 platform since snapping this pic.

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My work represents being solid as a rock in your faith, your ideology and with your family and friends.

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My Mom use to tell me to crack the black peppercorns in a cloth with a red brick. My Mom, Lucia,  always loved eating Pecorino cheese with black pepper, called Pecorino with pepe nero, and as I thought of a name for this song I said lemme combine Pecorino with our family name Pecoraro. My own music, I created is called Italian Electronic Pop Music.

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There here is a feeling of obscurity in my work, the eye peeking through the mask on the doll can be read as feeling isolated and uncertain about our new sense of normal.

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2020 has taught me more about the challenging conditions that workers in different fields face, particularly those in healthcare and face-to-face service industries. We call these workers our heroes and our angels but fall short of compensating them for their sacrifices. In this self-portrait, which is part of a larger photographic series about workers, I portray myself as a nurse and I include a tongue-in-cheek imaginary quote about how she feels when someone calls her an “angel.”

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2020 has been this very odd, unprecedented, complex, stagnant yet ever changing idea. I wanted to create a piece that showed that complexity, that texture, that movement. I created this orbs flowing over this square box, signifying that we can’t define our humanity by this period or box that we are living in now. Our dreams will prevail, our hopes will prevail and this pandemic will not keep us tightly contained in this box.

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At the moment, I am looking for a change.

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New York City is a vibrant city. We will rise. We will dance again!

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We will survive! We must survive!
And it is not an overstatement.
As a nation, as humanity, we don't have another choice: we will survive this virus. We survived hurricanes and floods, slavery and discrimination, fascism and communism, wars and hunger. We survived dozens of deadly diseases. We became stronger. We will survive this virus! We can! We should! We must! We don't have other choice!

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When everything goes back to normal this is how relax everyone will feel.

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I have written what I am strongly feeling at this moment. I feel good about it because it helps me survive what everyone in the world  is going thru right now.

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My daughter created this art piece. Everyone from Queens Hospital is hoping and praying for a cure soon.

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I am feeling the chaos, the misery, the uncertainty, the heaviness of the world we are living in now. On the other hand, I am feeling the optimism of this upside down world. You can see a different view by standing on your head or by turning the work around.