A Facebook group is brightening up the quarantine days of thousands of users across the world On 20 March, when the quarantine imposed to control the spread of covid-19 was enforced in most parts of the world, Barbara Duriau, a graphic designer based in Amsterdam, uploaded a new photograph on her Facebook profile cover.
It showed a window opening on to a pink cloud—like a visual prayer of hope for a new dawn. Then, an idea struck her. “I realized that, in fact, every day I was looking at the same view from the same window," Duriau says on email. “Due to the coronavirus crisis, we are all stuck at home, glued to the same window, looking out at the same view: a building, a wall, a small garden, the mountains, a pool, or the ocean for the