How drawing a comic strip in coronavirus quarantine helped artist see the funny side of 14 days alone in Room 1419

Just as prisoners rarely forget their inmate identification number, Hong Kong artist Carol Bellese Choi is unlikely to forget 1419 – her room number at a government quarantine facility in Fo Tan where she was isolated for two weeks.“The whole experience was very surreal,” says Choi, settling into a chair at a coffee shop in Wong Chuk Hang, the industrial district on the south side of Hong Kong Island where she works as a painter at the Elsa Jeandedieu Studio.“My boyfriend contracted [Covid-19,…

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