Bella Bosi

‘Disregard’ in Westminster : Bayswater, 25-05-20

Isabella Bosi

'6pm for a month’ in Oxford Street, 08-04-20 : 07-05-20

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‘Lockdown Spaces’ a Facetime series, 2020

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‘Georgie’ in Lockdown, Loughborough Junction, London, 10-04-20

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"Good morning. I'm sorry I've been away from my desk for much longer than I would have liked and I want to thank everybody who has stepped up, in particular the First Secretary of State Dominic Raab who has done a terrific job, but once again I want to thank you, the people of this country for the sheer grit and guts you have shown and are continuing to show. "Every day I know that this virus brings new sadness and mourning to households across the land and it is still true that this is the biggest single challenge this country has faced since the war and I in no way minimise the continuing problems we face.

"And yet it is also true that we are making progress, with fewer hospital admissions, fewer Covid patients in ICU, and real signs now that we are passing through the peak.

And thanks to your forbearance, your good sense, your altruism, your spirit of 5community, thanks to our ‘Boris Return Speech’, 27-04-20

NEWSPAPER COVERS April-May we are on the brink of achieving that first clear mission to prevent our National Health Service from being overwhelmed in a way that tragically we have seen elsewhere.�

"And that is how and why we are now beginning to turn the tide. If this virus were a physical assailant, an unexpected and invisible mugger, which I can tell you from personal experience it is, then this is the moment when we have begun together to wrestle it to the floor. "And so it follows that this is the moment of opportunity, this is the moment when we can press home our advantage. It is also the moment of maximum risk because I know that there will be many people looking now at our apparent success and beginning to wonder whether now is the time to go easy on those social distancing measures. "And I know how hard and how stressful it has been to give up, even temporarily, COVID19 6

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‘Nonna on Zoom’ in Lockdown, Camberwell, London, 12-04-20

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‘Lockdown Spaces’ a Facetime series, 2020

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‘Ella’ in Lockdown, Dulwich Village, London, 16-04-20

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‘Corona on the Brain’, a Self-Portrait, 16-04-20

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‘Lockdown Spaces’ a Facetime series, 2020

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‘Nella’ in Lockdown, Aberdare, Wales, 19-04-20

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‘IS HOW WE LIVE IMPORTANT’ - comparing stranger’s receipts, 01-05-20

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‘Lockdown Spaces’ a Facetime series, 2020

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‘Bea’ in Lockdown, Edinburgh, Scotland, 20-04-20

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‘Between Passed Space’ series on Phone Camera, 20:26-05-20

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‘Online Distance’ on Omegle, 20-04-20

‘Nora’ a GP in Lockdown, Dundalk, Ireland, 20-04-20

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‘Lockdown Spaces’ a Facetime series, 2020

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‘Lucy’ in Lockdown, Herne Hill, London, 22-04-20

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’New FRIENDS’ series on Scanner, 03-05-20

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‘Lockdown Spaces’ a Facetime series, 2020

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‘Roisin’ in Lockdown, Paris, France, 26-04-20

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‘COVID GYM’, a Cut-Up series from ‘Bodyshaping for Women’, 26-04-20

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‘Seeking Angelina’ in ‘A Trip to’, a CCTV series, Westbay Bridport, 27-04-20

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‘Lottie aka Mushy Pea’, ZOOM, for ‘GOAT GIRL’ in Lewisham, London, 27-04-20

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‘Lockdown Spaces’ a Facetime series, 2020

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‘Lillian’ in Lockdown, Venice, Italy, 03-05-20

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‘Without 6m FRIENDS’ (left) and ‘Virtual me Time’ (right) on FaceMaker, 03-05-20

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‘A Trip to Rome’, a CCTV series, Piazza Di Spagna & Trevi Fountain, 05-05-20

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A NIGHT AFTER FIVE PM by Isabella Bosi Because at five pm we will find out if knives can cut through knives. Maybe I’ll sip the foam off the top of a cappuccino from Italy. Much of authority at the moment stinks to high hell, they better give us a better show.

Everything I see reminds me of flames. It’s necessary to go to as many extremes as possible. This little rain check – it all looks like a toy town glistening bronzed orange.

Burning because the English got the end mixed up. The elderly are stunted into wheelchairs because its easier to control zombies. We steal from empty shelves, the empty shelves of what we are. Physical possessions useless amongst our homes even in this night. Because soon we will all be in boxes. We are not fleeing our parents, or our homelands, but we still fight and steal and beat and feel as if we are alone. With our mobile phones, isolated, home? No more milk. NO more eggs. Students noticed that something was happening. ‘Give to the poor’.

Production, Production, but where are all the CEO’S. I’m sorry I interrupted your manufacturing to look at the blazing trees, just transferring to the world of imaginary.

I’ll write a story about a murder. But there’s now too many to take note. Our candidate sticks his face through broken glass at 5pm, the sound of our phones cracking at the wretched screen. Did not the populace choose the image they wanted to rule them? Tales of the Bourgeois are written so stolid. But this is now a fairytale where we are isolated from the world and from myself, doubly isolated, but I feel as though I will find friends. A Trumpet cries from a balcony in Madrid, the Parisians sing cheek to cheek. It’s 5pm. I usually write stories of sex and violence, but this is big enough for the both of us. Money is simply rejection, yes, a place to breathe. And where is the Queen with her crown for our ventilators. A perfect vocalist, well done with your vocabulary, you must take it up on Instagram. “This will be a great year for Britain” on January second. He just tells us the context is changing, like Baudrillard who wallows in Nihilism, or like some of the ‘best’ - the burning tree is for Thatcherism, here she is, edging her butthole back in. I wait 5 hours to hour to 5 hours. Darkness falls with the Angels; gloves scatter my brain and they are left without what is necessary to fight.

Soon morning breaks and children play with their plaything’s in their schools. But maybe there is a beauty in this. After all, even the poor want their own mirror. The world was created in the image of God? And even in flames, the rain will pour. And the water will no longer be murky, but obsolete. And we will all take a ride on the Ark. And of course, once again we will be cleansed. We will take back our nights after 5pm. We wait in isolation. But they can’t let us, and they never will.

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‘Day 1 of 100’, an Illustration, 08-05-20

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‘Vacuum seal your businesses’, from series ‘New FRIENDS’, 03-05-20

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