Returning to life after lockdown involves an ever-increasing pattern of overlapping life shapes and patterns, combinations of over and under, beside and between, distant and closer, safer and less safe, trusting and risky, aimless and purposeful, peaceful and agitated, knowing and unknowing, hopeful and disturbed, relieved and edgy, banal and fantastic, comfortable and prickly, proactive…

Having lived a strange, slightly edgy existence for several months, we are starting to know and live the new normal. From separate cells of one or two, moving at a distance from other social cells in our immediate orbit, we are beginning to take more chances and get closer, with or without masks. Distances are…