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“I spend 10 hours every day quilting”: Before Covid, he couldn’t sew. Now he sells his designs on Instagram “I spend 10 hours every day quilting”: Before Covid, he couldn’t sew. Now he sells his designs on Instagram
By Justin Yong | Photography By Daniel Neuhaus |
May 28, 2021
05/28/2021
Justin Yong is a Toronto-based photographer whose work dried up when the pandemic hit last spring. With idle time on his hands, he borrowed a sewing machine from his mother and took up quilting. Now he makes elaborate, one-of-a-kind quilts with fabrics that he sources from across the city, and sells them on Instagram. Here, he tells Toronto Life
I’ve been practising internal medicine and infectious diseases for the better part of 20 years. I’ve been through the Ebola crisis, H1N1 and SARS, but none of those experiences prepared me for Covid. The scale of the whole SARS outbreak in 2002 pales in comparison to the current Covid-19 pandemic. It was still harrowing I saw colleagues get sick and patients die but that virus was somewhat more predictable. What differentiates Covid-19 is that it’s hidden, capricious. It’s also extensive in its reach and dangerously infectious, which makes it even more daunting and overwhelming compared to any outbreaks I’ve seen in the past.