Claudia Catelli Polimoda
20 years old
Frosinone, Italy
How has your everyday-life changed? What do you do to fulfill your day?
Returning to your city to live with your parents is never easy, especially for someone like me who changes her mind (and hair color) and personality every day. I felt very inspired and I would have liked to implement many of my ideas during this spring, these were my intentions before March, but the I got stuck in my old life, as if I regressed. I feel a bit like I'm in a cage, deprived of the love and inspiration that I would have had and received in a normal situation in this wonderful season; I force myself thinking about the end of this quarantine and the return of my freedom and my expressiveness. The days go by... but they are endless. I keep busy spending hours on Photoshop and Illustrator, I acquire new skills, I learn new things, and I often work for myself (this guarantees me freedom in almost everything I am creating).
Your work is built on creativity. While we’re all in quarantine, what is your solution to keep on being creative? Where do you find your inspiration in this moment?
Movies, music, contemporary artists (mainly Spanish), blogs: being time the only weapon to be exploited to the full in this quarantine, I am finally able to listen and pay more attention to many pieces or cult films that provide much of the inspiration right now. I feel that after a long time I can finally stop to reflect more and give more weight to many ideas that maybe are not feasible at the moment but that will be soon. I use these moments to plan future projects, also counting on the free time and on the collaboration of many friends who, like me, do not want to stop or give up putting their creativity into practice.
What is your biggest fear right now?
As everyone, I tremble at the thought that we cannot go back to normal for a long time yet. For how long will I have to fear physical contact as a threat? It may seems trivial, but my second biggest fear is not being able to reach my little house by the sea which I can consider my little corner of paradise and pure tranquility, where I feel really happy and I return as a child. Where I met 10 years ago the person who has accompanied me in everything (and to whom I owe everything) to date, with whom I currently live in Florence, and with whom I hope to meet as soon as possible. I hope to be able to escape soon and to stay a little outdoors, in touch with nature and the sea so that I can find some stability and lightness after these difficult months. I also want to embrace my grandparents, my friends around the world, having been divided by everyone like this, suddenly... I could never have expected it. It scares me and it saddens me so much all the time I lost and I couldn't spend with them.
What will you do once all of this is over?
Personally, I can't wait to get back into the game, to wander through the hallways of the school and to continue learning and being inspired by all those who previously surrounded me. The thing that grieved me most during this quarantine was the forced separation from my person, with whom I have shared most of my childhood and the rest of my existence and time so far, and we have had to adapt to a reality in which at any moment we were deprived of any means to reach us: it broke our heart and soul. I have great hope that the only positive factor of this COVID-19 has been to give people another point of view; unquestionably we will appreciate in a different way a world where often everything seems easily accessible, we will go back to strolling the streets with tranquility and to smoke in the parks, we will enjoy the new moments in the company of the people we love and that before we often took for granted... I don't know, I also hope that I have managed to grow and evolve independently of the various obstacles that have been posed to me by this quarantine.
