Young and emerging artists also use the trauma phenomenon as inspiration for their creative work. This way we can state that this construct is metaphorically similar to clay that can be transformed into anything someone may want.

It is peculiar that representing trauma through the motive of loneliness started trending. We may understand it as a cliché image of our digitized post-COVID world, where becoming alone is some sort of a virus for those who need company.

Alexandra Conner's series Stuck in Greyville refers to this traumatic entity with a number of photographs that create a visual pattern of loneliness. The monochromatic palette the photographer uses creates a feeling of emotional emptiness. This emotion stands behind the narrative the artist hides behind this visual material – a traveler seeking company. Conner makes her model the only character in the series, but the places she chooses for landscapes also have just one element in them, by which the artist highlights the solitude presented in her work. Such a subject can refer to all the major changes the world faced after the pandemic. Some of us have lost close family members and friends, some are just lost in all of this isolation drama.

Belorussian artist Inna Miller works with trauma in her own way. She prefers a more humorous and emotionally light context. Her recent series of heads clearly demonstrates it. In these simulacra of portraits Miller shows all sorts of hidden emotional conditions one can be in. It is really interesting that she prefers to use bright jazzy colors as if she wants to educate her viewer, and teach them that one can have all sorts of emotional states… Hence, bottling everything up may lead to an even bigger case of trauma.