Ora pro nobis -
Resilience in pandemic times

With the necesity of making art and create, but confinned at home because of the COVID-19, Rafaela Bermond creates a serie of photography, shot at the artist's house, in the city of Campinas - Brazil, in the critical period of confinement of the COVID-19 pandemic. April 2020. 

The Ora Pro Nobis photographic series contains 9 images. Barbed wires and the PANC (non-conventional food plant) called “Ora Pro Nobis” form poetry. The plant, ora pro nobis, has in its name the meaning of "pray for us" from the meaning of the biblical sense. At the same time is symbolic in its name and in its nature (full of thorns but nutritious and flowery) reveals resilience in pandemic times.

As a very strong plant, the leaves and the flowers grown in between the barbed wires. The clouds in the shy, together with the textured from the high ISO, brings textured and a lot of reality to the photografs. 

The plant is a representation of the human kind, surviving and beeing resilient in the middle of the wires, the storms and a pandemic in the world. 

The photographs was a form of maitaining a good mind and good connection with art during the hard period of confinement.