L O C K D O W N C O N F U S I O N
Covid-19 has put our lives in limbo. This piece represents L A N A' s personal experience during lockdown and as restrictions get eased, getting back to a ‘new normal’ way of life.
Images have been collated to record how her time has been spent during this period, which includes screen shots from Zoom meetings, online quizzes and workouts to photos of rainbows of hope taken during daily walks, experimental cooked meals, receipts of essential purchases as well as signs and notices regarding Coronavirus.
These images have been cut into strips and woven together onto a plaster cast of a female torso. Since lockdown began, time and memory seem to have lost all meaning.
The extracts of the images intertwined with each other, at times blurred, represent the distorted passage of time over this period and the confusion experienced, as well as the small positives amongst the darkness of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Images have been collated to record how her time has been spent during this period, which includes screen shots from Zoom meetings, online quizzes and workouts to photos of rainbows of hope taken during daily walks, experimental cooked meals, receipts of essential purchases as well as signs and notices regarding Coronavirus.
These images have been cut into strips and woven together onto a plaster cast of a female torso. Since lockdown began, time and memory seem to have lost all meaning.
The extracts of the images intertwined with each other, at times blurred, represent the distorted passage of time over this period and the confusion experienced, as well as the small positives amongst the darkness of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Lockdown Confusion
(2020)
Paper on plaster base
92 cm x 28 cm
(2020)
Paper on plaster base
92 cm x 28 cm
