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Representing our perennially shifting moods through each phase of the lockdown, designer Komal More has created six emojis. Explaining the idea, she says, "I have never experienced something like this before. So, when the lockdown was first announced I was like 'What is this exactly?' and in the second phase I said, 'Okay, we will get through this; everything will be fine.'" But things changed from thereon, and the consequent phases left her with a mixed bag of emotions with stricter regulations being imposed in Mumbai due to the surge in cases. And perhaps, her fifth and sixth emoji sum up the wild emotional roller-coaster we've been put onto best.

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Wide awake

City-based artist Tanishkya D'Lyma is constantly inspired by other artistes, especially musicians. The emoji she created is titled Wide Awake, after Chris Cornell's song. The cloud represents the uncertainty that the pandemic brings. The open eye is a literal translation of sleeping with one eye open while the closed eye shows how our usual lives have been put to slumber — leaving reality to feel like a dream. "It also denotes our retreat to safety, rather our attempt to retreat, physically and mentally," says D'Lyma.

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Longtime lockdown

Robert Frost wrote, 'Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.' But now, we long to be out. So, Goa-based production designer and illustrator Devika Dave encapsulated it in an emoji titled Longtime Lockdown. "The idea comes from the space we have inhabited, and how we are fully consuming it every day," she says.

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