“Still, I couldn’t stop tracking. My spreadsheet was the only thing I could control in a life I no longer recognized.”
– Brooklyn-based data artist and information designer
Giorgia Lupi, on logging her life with long Covid. In an interactive essay for
The New York Times, Lupi, who first contracted Covid in March 2020, recounts recording symptoms, doctors appointments, emergency room visits, medical procedures and costs with paint. “Every day is filled to the brim with appointments, meds, needles, bills and pain,” she writes of her ongoing battle. “The brushstrokes of my illness are suffocating.”