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When art responds to the now

Art that reflects a crisis reinforces our empathy and has added currency when shared in a timely fashion on social media

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Melissa Sim

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Chatting online with friends and family during the circuit breaker made me experience how isolated some domestic helpers must feel throughout their working lives.
My situation is nowhere as difficult as theirs - I live with my immediate family and my stay-home experience was only seven weeks long - but there were some parallels.
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