“Little Flu” is a project about my isolation during the pandemic of COVID-19. With a digital microscope, I documented my bedroom and the situations around me from March to May –  bugs, my body, the computer screen, surfaces, books, printed images and everything that surrounded me. The microscope camera functions as a metaphor of our present times, an instrument that focus on the details (often forgotten in the daily routine) and represents an obsession for the invisible. It is a search for a tiny thing that we cannot see but is capable of killing us. The process of photographing the details and the invisible of my own reality works as a way of killing time, to protect my community and myself and a way to connect with my inner self.

“Little Flu” is how the international media translated the expression “gripezinha”, the way Brazil’s president calls the virus responsible for the pandemic we are facing.