During the first two months of isolation due to Covid-19, designer Ivan Jerônimo accumulated more than forty drawings depicting objects and rooms in his apartment. These are ordinary scenes that were suddenly brought to the forefront during the pandemic.
A regular at meetings of Urban Sketchers Florianópolis, a global movement that organizes street sketching outings, the designer filled several pages of his sketchbooks using materials such as watercolor, fountain pen, and even a tablet. For each social media post, he wrote a short text. “It is curious how, in this simple activity of drawing objects, so much goes through your mind. The home is not just a repository of things, but also of memories,” he reflects.
Unable to go outside, he continued practicing observational drawing. However, instead of the urban architecture and human figures from before, he turned to the interior architecture of his home and the scenes he could see from the window. “I decided to continue with an activity I've always liked and that absorbs me, partly to avoid getting too anxious about the situation,” says Jerônimo, who is a UX designer in software development.
The effect of social distancing measures is shown in things as mundane as the glass bottles that accumulated due to the suspension of recycling collection, the quiet street in front of his building, or the home office set up in a corner of his wife's studio.
Instead of looking for a publisher, he decided to self-publish: “It would have been difficult to find anyone interested in publishing it, especially with bookstores closed and publishers putting new releases on hold. I felt I needed to release the book soon because it is my record of a period that, for most of us, is not yet over,” he explains.
60 Days Indoors - An Illustrated Diary of Isolation
Author: Ivan Jerônimo
Pages: 84
Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm
Print version: here
E-book version: here
This article was written by Romullo Baratto. The translation is powered by AI.
