May in quarantine
YEAR: 2020
ARTIST: Thomas Wilson
MATERIALS: Photography
More of his work can be found on Instagram @thomspictures.
May in Quarantine is a series of images of plants (living or artificial) trapped in the confines of their owner’s living quarters. The eternal quarantine of the common house plant depicts many of the complex emotions that individuals have struggled with during the COVID-19 Pandemic. For some, it has been feelings of claustrophobia or the fear of withering away without access to essentials, or even the threat of a microscopic enemy bent on killing its host. The project poses no solutions to the threats that pandemics offer, but rather seeks to raise questions about where our priorities lie and the roles that isolation plays in our everyday lives.
Thomas Wilson is a photographer and high school environmental science teacher based in Brooklyn, New York.