Embrace the New Challenge
More and more reports on the insufficient supply of COVID-19 vaccine, as well as more government corruption news, emerged. Finally,
the COVID-19 Delta variant was identified in Thailand. I was furious, but could not put anything out on social media because I felt my family, all pro-government, would be angry if I put negative messages in a public sphere. I became more upset and depressed when I noticed that friends in Europe and America slowly resumed life and started to travel freely again. They began to post pictures of their holidays. I couldn’t understand why people seemed not to care about our situation. I was angry, depressed, and wanted to keep my distance from everyone I knew.
I was consumed with a depressive mood that was deep and, at times, raw. There is a velvety depth to some of these images, and a lushness like that of a flickering flame. This was a point of intense emotion on the edge of shutdown. In a way, there is calm here because of the saturation of emotion.