March-April-May 2020: The thing about working from home was your workday felt as full as ever, in fact, being in a perpetual state of Zoom-preparedness made it feel even more loaded. However, it was the hours that surrounded the workday that seemed eerily empty.
Without the commute – with the pubs, restaurants, cinemas, cultural and sporting events, all denied us – time took on a strange consistency; simultaneously passing quickly and slowly. For those of us who are ‘creative’ for a living, the natural instinct was to reach for a pencil and paper when we didn’t know what else to do. We’d invent things to distract our unhealthily overactive minds in a vain attempt to quieten the deafening silence of Lockdown. If nothing else, we’d doodle incessantly. Often obsessively.
