A beginner's guide to social reintroduction

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This is a sketchbook generated by myself and my husband Ben Stanton, created during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 during the first lockdown. We wanted to express complex feelings of a complex period, and we approached the sketchbook to narrate a social commentary on how life has changed after COVID-19.

In our 'Beginner's Guide to Social Reintroduction' we illustrated 15 words with ink pens and watercolour, creating new meanings and contexts. We loved combining our art and thoughts, grateful we were lucky enough to spend the lockdown together.