LONELINESS AMONG MIGRANTS IN LONDON
At some point last year, whilst riding on the tube, I found an article in a discarded copy of The Economist about loneliness in London. This article indicated that Britain is the ‘loneliness capital of Europe’. In fact, strong feelings of loneliness formed my first impressions of London when I started my new life here one and a half years ago. As an international student, at the beginning of term I was very excited about trying new things. All the while, I felt quite frustrated with language barriers and cultural differences, which hindered my access to information and ability to communicate my ideas with my class as well as in daily life.
According to research by the British charity The Forum, loneliness is also one of the toughest challenges facing migrants in London. Using this zine, I want to illustrate the problems with loneliness in London, through a combination of informative statistics and insightful interviews conducted with migrants in the city. How does loneliness affect us in our day to day lives, and what can we learn from it?
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初來乍到倫敦唸書，除了興奮之情外，跟許多留學生一樣面臨到了語言與文化上的差異與隔閡，這樣的親身經歷讓我開始在學校研究移居者（Migrants）在倫敦的寂寞，希望藉由這本雜誌裡的數據與訪談內容，能刻劃出寂寞在這座城市裡的社會問題。寂寞是如何影響我們的日常生活？以及我們能如何學習與寂寞共處？
Loneliness is a subjective feeling and is sometime to describe in words. Baring this in mind, I asked all the interviewees to try and express their feelings of loneliness visually through a sketch. These sketches form the basis of my own illustrations in which I seek to empathise with my interviewees, and through geometric abstraction find a commonality between our experiences.
