By Japanese artist Sarai Mari
But then spring 2020 came along. The city, once buzzing with life, turned into a ghost town overnight. “I was scared to death,” Mari remembers. “I really thought we would die one by one, slowly, and that the end of the world was coming.” At the time, Covid was still largely a mystery – both to citizens and health officials – which created a suffocating sense of uncertainty. “No one wanted to leave the house,” she says, “we all locked ourselves inside.
Thankfully, by summer, the mood had begun to shift. The arrival of the sun saw the city sprout slowly back to life, with many of its inhabitants freed from the obligations of school and office life. The parks filled up, local communities reunited, and – following the death of George Floyd – the streets buzzed with an emboldened, righteous energy. “It felt like a unique and new way of life,” says Mari. “No one could go far, we all stayed in the same neighbourhood ...
The project was also extremely personal for Mari, as it helped her to discover a previously hidden side of the city she calls home. “It completely changed how I felt about New York,” she says. “I needed a little push to dive into it. It feels effortless to meet new people on the street now.” Although easily written off as another aggressive work-obsessed metropolis, the pandemic gave Mari an opportunity to engage with the city on a deeper level.
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