Visual artist-poet Manasi Keni woke up at 5 am, prepared a dabba and then hopped into a bus to be on time for an 8 am typography lecture at her college in Prabhadevi. The day was a race against time and a juggling of assignments. It had been that way for the Navi Mumbai resident, ever since she started teaching at Mumbai's Rachana Sansad College of Applied Art and Craft in 2002.

The 24x7 cycle—daily commute, morning lectures, exams, bedtime homework of her twins, kitchen commitments—broke three months ago, when on March 16, her college closed shutters amid the Coronavirus outbreak. The sudden availability of free unstructured family time that 44-year-old Keni was not used to, felt odd to begin with. But, as the lockdown extended, she struck a healthier equation with clocked time. She took to haikus, concrete poetry, kinetic typography visuals and calligraphy, to express the otherwise unnoticed aspects of life. Her artworks on social media platforms and her poetry videos have emerged as her rightful commentary space.