Evangelia Papoutsaki MA Leeds, PhD Cardiff, MRSNZ

Cities aren’t made for silence, they are meant to hum with human interactions and movement. Even the birds are missing us, I think, as they fly around wondering what happened to those cursed humans who've done enough damage to their natural habitat as it is. Still, they miss us, I think. We are meant to be symbiotic. Over the course of the last 18 months, my core identity of a "solitary traveler of the world" has taken a whole new meaning, a solitary traveler still but of the