LOCKDOWN HOUSES

Lockdown Houses

2020

During the first phase of Lockdown I experienced a new feeling – being in nature.  I was born in the City of London and had a healthy disrespect for the countryside – but I live in a little Buckinghamshire village replete with a canal and reservoirs.  Walking was our only pastime and I did walk, but most of all I looked.  I saw so many colours and shapes and natural things going on, that I had never noticed before.  And depending on the time of day, I saw myself, as a shadow, transported into that new environment.  Obviously, I took as many photos as I could of my beautifully distorted shadow and it caressed the water’s edge or floated on the sludgy green, stagnant waters.

But shadows are places devoid of light and that seemed too depressing for the uplifting feelings I got from these walks – so I inverted the images and made me full of light – might more in keeping with the sensations I was getting from this previously unappreciated world around me.

    Some of my shadowy avatars in nature.

This body of work, produced during the stultifying restrictions of Lockdown in 2020 became 3 dimensional and articulated the unique mood of change that was a new kind of domesticity.

My home, my nature, my houses… my lockdown