We’ve been asked to absorb shocks. The “land of the free” is no longer such. Some have hoarded toilet paper.  Masks have been mocked. Purell bottles are refilled with weak liquids for comfort. Health officials can only best guess.

I have captured these shocks to the system in a photo essay. The scenes are created with distorted scale because our worlds we orbit in have been distorted out of proportion. Life overwhelms. We must accept certain realities, not yet knowing their toll on our psyches. That will come. That’s later. For now, this is us.

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from THE VIRUS WITHIN US by Martha Clarkson
from THE VIRUS WITHIN US by Martha Clarkson
from THE VIRUS WITHIN US by Martha Clarkson
from THE VIRUS WITHIN US by Martha Clarkson
from THE VIRUS WITHIN US by Martha Clarkson
from THE VIRUS WITHIN US by Martha Clarkson
from THE VIRUS WITHIN US by Martha Clarkson
from THE VIRUS WITHIN US by Martha Clarkson
from THE VIRUS WITHIN US by Martha Clarkson
from THE VIRUS WITHIN US by Martha Clarkson