Coastal shrine2022

During the first Covid lockdown in 2020, when we were only restricted to 2 kilometers, I was walking from one beach to the other. Then my eyes fell on a rock with a little white stone on it. Written on the stone, in what looked like a young girl's handwriting, was the following message: "Covid, I am lonely." That attempt at connection inspired me. After half an hour walking there by the sea, I added ten more white stones to the rock. I kept doing this gesture daily, like a ritual. Other walkers started copying me and the Covid shrine became not only a personal ritual but a collective monument of connection. Laying a stone at the temple is sharing your intention and special wish with the universe and releasing it to the elements.-- Els Dietvorst. This publication is part of the PhD research...