A day after the start of the new year the Chinese authorities began taking drastic measures to contain the further expansion of a new virus. The areas of greatest danger were completely closed off and people confined to their homes with minimal or no contact with the outside. In most of the country there have been less harsh actions, but they have virtually paralyzed most of the economic and social activities for a month. It has been the Internet, with its mass of news - real or fake - and comments - rational and extreme - the only line of communication between all of us. Day and night in the same space feeding on our fears and anxieties, fighting to not get carried away and to remain rational.

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This is an impulsive document of these times, a personal creative game where I have photographed and given voice to my other self, the one who does not know about reasoning and maturity, and lives these days  like an animal in forced confinement.

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Gustavo Thomas 

Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

March 2020