A Malaysian Artist Under Lockdown in Italy

By Rebecca Duckett-Wilkinson

June 2020 FEATURE
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My boundary walks. I have walked around the boundary so many times during lockdown because we could not leave the area of our homes.
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May 4, 2020I’M WRITING THIS as a small shift begins to unlock the wheels of the Italian economy – the country has been in total lockdown since March 9. My front door is open, the sun is shining, the birdsong is loud and amazingly, an enormous swarm of bees has just flown by. A dark cloud that hummed so loudly that I thought a big, slow-moving tractor was driving past.When I left Penang mid-February to fly to Italy, exhausted after...

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Rebecca Duckett-Wilkinson

To know more about her works, visit her Facebook @RebeccaDuckettWilkinsonArt or her Instagram account @atravellingartistsdiary.

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