Christmas was a hard time for me. I got Covid and had to be all alone in my flat for ten days. I was weak from the sickness, sad and lonely. It was the first time in my life after years that I didn’t have anything to do and I had to be all alone with myself. A huge wave of emotions and thoughts that I hadn’t dealt with came up and I felt like a boat stuck in a storm with no way out. I didn’t want to paint, or even think about my project in unit one. So, I rested, for weeks.When unit two started I felt a strong resistance towards painting or doing anything related to art. I was homesick and depressed and since my project was mostly focused on my own experiences as a marginalized person, working on it would bring up even more pain and discomfort for me. In order to get a bit distant from that project I started going to British Museum, visiting the part about Ancient Iran. Many of pieces there are brought there from ancient cities in Iran that are very close to the city I grew up in, Shiraz.