My work over the last five years has been situated within the practice of drawing. ‘Variants of Concern’, as a body of work is a personal document. A testimony to a specific time, lockdown and the pandemic. A very personal account.
The drawings are material witnesses. My hand moving across a surface, recounting time, precarity and feeling; allowing fragments and complexities and the fear of the unseen to become visible. The mask became the primary motif; an emblem, a metaphor, and a vehicle to interrogate and re-present my experiences.
The drawings also allowed me to develop my thinking on the relationship between writing and drawing. I believe writing is drawing. As I drew, I wrote and as I wrote, I drew. No hierarchy; an echo of the democracy of the practice of drawing.
