I asked a friend what had kept her occupied during the lockdown, and she said she had been staving off the impulse of writing down every single moment she had spent alone inside her apartment watching the ghost town-ish neighborhood by her window. She’s once a zealous escapist.

Highlighted in the article The Birth of Pandemic Art, artworks that had sprouted these past few months, particularly on Instagram, study the many facets of COVID19 in the socio-cultural context more than the histor...