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| Don't stand here London, ON March 2020 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
The streets are, to no one's surprise, empty. Most folks - outside of the essential heroes keeping us healthy, fed, and serviced - have anywhere to go, so what would normally be a heavily trafficked arterial road is now an overly wide stretch of empty asphalt. It's more than a little sad to see.
But what looks like sadness to some presents as opportunity to others. And I think to myself, "Myself, when is it going to be this abandoned again?"
Which explains how I came to be wandering around the lanes late at night taking photos of this surreal scene that could have been lifted straight out of Will Smith's I Am Legend. Not exactly the smartest move, but I'll call it a reasonable risk worth taking. Because I feel an overwhelming need to remember what this extraordinary period in human history both looks and feels like, and sometimes that storytelling involves doing things a little differently.
That word: Storytelling. Make sure you tell your story through all of this, in any way that makes sense to you. When all else is stripped away, this is what we're left with.
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