The Waiting Room
by Catarina Lay from Houston, Texas
This is an extract of a story of a young girl confined in a room, waiting.
With the Covid-19 pandemic declared early 2020, the entire world faced a long and uncertain period of waiting. People were confined in their homes in a lockdown measure to prevent the spread of an uncontrolled deadly virus. People found new ways to communicate and to simply be.
About the waiting...it’s a waiting in which you can hear the ticking seconds. It’s a waiting in which you can hear the daughters crying for their mothers, the mothers they can’t hug. It’s the waiting of a call. It’s a waiting for news. It’s a waiting for a summer breeze. It’s a waiting for loud laughters. It’s a waiting for something...
Today we’re still quarantined. We still have not hugged, we still cry. But, we also still hope and dream just like the young girl in this story.
My intent is to invite the public to wonder about this waiting and also dream, getting lost in the mystery and poetry of the images.
