I’ve been through a strange liquidation of friends over the course of the pandemic. I don’t think I’m alone, though for others friendships have solidified. I still feel as if I’m navigating the aftershock. Speaking recently with the writer and curator, Fiona Alison Duncan, we both acknowledged losing women friends in particular.
People are certainly in a panic about their decisions, who is doing what, who is succeeding or not. We gaze at one another on social media, collapsing life and work into the rubric of self-promotion. I mentioned to Fiona that a friend commented on my social media saying I didn’t exploit my commercial potential, adding that I probably didn’t really know how to do that. “We should be better business women,” we declared to one another thinly.
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