Lockdown: I wake up too early, with a feeling of dread and despair. I see moments of light and shadow in my home and I have been photographing shapes created by the unpredictable natural light on daily basis since March 2020. The daily search for images has developed into a ritual. The days were punctuated by the government press conference, insisting that the virus is under control. I ask myself how to interpret the information while we witness the fatalities in the UK going up. We do not know names, faces or stories, only statistics. This dystopian year is hard to process, we have become desensitised to mass death. Despite the high numbers of casualties, it seems the covid victims are unable to generate a sense of national loss and tragedy as in times of war. Is that because of the news coverage, dominated by statistics, graphs and curves? A single death is a tragedy; thousands of avoidable deaths can’t be dismissed as a statistic. The project makes me reflect on the issues around permanence, how quickly everything changes and is gone. Thoughts about my own and my families’ mortality have not come in to focus so vividly before. The idea of translating the data into an artwork for me creates an emotional release that is intended to go beyond numbers and statistics.
Each panel contains 28 photographs organised in 7 columns. Continuous red, white or blue and black thread is hovering over the panels, attached through push pins to each image representing the corona virus fatalities in the UK for each day in a criss cross pattern.
Winding the thread over the images on the panels in silence takes time and gives me space to think about the life of individuals beneath the surface of the numbers.

The total length of thread from 21st March 2020 to 19th February 2021 is 140062 cm
(comprising 119920 cm coloured thread and 20142cm black thread), hovering over 12 panels with 336 photographs.
Each panel is at least 1.40 m wide and 1m high (individual image size 20X25cm)
data from https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk