During the Coronavirus lockdown of 2020, the space of home for many of us expanded considerably, from a place of refuge and rest, to the primary location of nearly every event in our lives. This photo essay documents the lived, and felt, experience of life at home in suburban Philadelphia during lockdown. Shot through smudged and hazy windows and depicting ambiguous scenes that are often difficult to identify or figure out, it seeks to document both the alien eeriness of pandemic life and the utter mundanity of being stuck at home for months at a time. The accompanying text adds further emotional complexity to the visual narrative without simplifying or explaining the images. The images and the text are meant to sit alongside one another, complicating and sometimes contradicting each other, and presenting aspects of the experience that the other is ill-equipped to capture. My hope is that this essay reveals something of the emotional complexity of lockdown, its irreducibility and singularity, its fraught affective atmosphere not easily represented in either images or words.

在 2020 年冠状病毒封锁期间，我们许多人的家空间大大扩大，从避难和休息的地方，到我们生活中几乎所有事件的主要场所。这篇照片文章记录了封锁期间在费城郊区的家中生活和感受。通过污迹斑斑和朦胧的窗户拍摄，描绘通常难以识别或弄清楚的模棱两可的场景，它试图记录大流行生活的奇异怪异和一次被困在家里几个月的完全平凡。随附的文字进一步补充在不简化或解释图像的情况下，视觉叙事的情感复杂性。图像和文本应该并排放置，使彼此复杂化，有时相互矛盾，并呈现出对方无法捕捉的体验的各个方面。我希望这篇文章揭示了封锁的情感复杂性，它的不可还原性和奇异性，以及难以用图像或文字表达的充满情感的氛围。