Lockdown Traces

[No] art in isolation

spend time

lockdown

traces

art and life

digital home

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layer

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link

pause

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Lockdown traces - Art from a distance...

the physical, digital, imagined and found...

It is...

experimental

a document

an index

time...

slow...

meandering...

changing

growing

spreading...

art and life and life and art

solitary and shared

It is not...

art in lockdown...

It is...

art of lockdown...

unlocked

not about...

not inspired...

not locked down.

It is of one space but, many places

collected...

created...

appropriated...

noticed...

pondered...

thought...

No Exit... (2020).

tissue paper and graphite 1700 x 800 mm (approx). Photo documentation. isolation... Artwork created from a situation of social distancing. The front door is now an uncrossable boundry. Tissue paper becomes a delicate wrapping, a safe seal from the outside world.

Door Dreams (2020)

Photo collage

No Exit... (2020).

a photo capture to memorialise the tissue remains after the removal from door. working against spatial problems... utilising momentary free space before it becomes shared family space. time, moments, isolation.

No Exit... (2020).

No Exit... a ghost, a trace of 'front door'. The entry and exit of home dormant

No Exit... (2020).

No Exit... Lying in situ in the living space as a reminder of what was... before isolation.

No Post Today (2020)

Detailed image of letterbox the only physical connection to the world beyond the door.

Beyond The Letterbox (2020)

Photo documentation of through the letter box.

Beyond The Letterbox (2020)

Photo documentation of through the letter box.

Beyond The Letterbox (2020)

Remembering outdoor... existing... beyond the threshold of home. Photo documentation of through the letter box.

Digitally altered screenshot of dorothy's red shoes, there's no place like home.

face mask... the illusion of the mask repeated

the colour of home

COVID-19 749k+ deaths worldwide 13.08.2020

Front door

the threshold between me and the outside world...

No exit

Wrapped in tissue paper; the material that I use to delicately store away my most precious things...

is now the material, storing me, away from everything beyond.

I carefully build...

tissue over door, a cocoon like protector.

feeling my way into every bend and fold...

remembering shape and form through touch. a mark of time with graphite and fingertips.

What soft light through yonder letter box...

No Post Today...

I haven't a clue....

This day... That day... The other...

Beginning to show

a situation that brings out the impossible

Stuck behind the screen

this is not going to be fun...

it's not real it's not real

there is no escaping the virtual

where do I hide?

there is nowhere to hide...

I'm failing

do this... do that... be here... be there...

Virtually social

where is the off button???

Whoever would think this place is a paradise?

visual overload

I am of the material

stuff stuff stuff touch it... feel it... smell it...

It's all

Don't be fooled by the follows and likes... they are not real

Exhibition

look at me look at me look at me

no no no

Digital fiction

I don't know what is real anymore

Misinformation

do your homework.....

What is going on

selfless selfish helpless kindness hopeless

Kitchen

the hub of family life

the central meeting space

apparently!

Rewind...

kitchen

the hub of grub and stuff

a space of culinary creativity...

of testing

experimenting

of easy cleaning...

traces of this, that and the other.

nutrition for the mind

and body...

kitchen

the hub of doing

a space to paint

to glue

to fold...

an assemblage of art and life and life and art

kitchen, studio, gallery.

Kitchen Gallery: 1. 2. 3 & 4

photograph

Tea Strainer in Green (2020)

oil pastel on tracing paper size: A4

Kitchen Gallery: Tea Strainer in Green (2020)

photograph

Freshona Polpa di pomodori [Can in Yellow] (2020)

oil pastel on tracing paper size: A4

Homage to Takeaway in Blue (2020)

oil pastel on tracing paper size: A4

Grater in Red (2020)

oil pastel on tracing paper size:A4

Chopping Board in Pink (2020)

oil pastel on tracing paper size: A4

Homage to Takeaway in Graphite (2020)

Graphite on newsprint size: A4

Homage to Takeaway in Crimson (2020)

oil pastel on newsprint size: A4

PAUSE, TEA, COFFEE, FOLD

come sail away in a click...

Breakfast Paintings

breakfast doodles

Breakfast Paintings

breakfast doodles

click click clickety click

Cloud in Nine Reconfigured (2020) .

July 12 2020 Sunshine Blue skies wispy clouds photographs cropped and flipped, twisted and turned to creating symmetrical patterns with the changing sky

Cloud in Nine Reconfigured (2020) .