Covid Commemoration Book Installation

Now I’m wondering how we will be remembering this seismic shift in the way our world works. When I’m my 80s and subject to whatever kind of social care I can expect as an old woman, what are the adverts on the back of whatever the contemporary version of the Lady are going to be; which bits will I be misremembering, misquoting and misrepresenting with dotty abandon. I wonder if I will sigh and say, we all got on so well, we had a wonderful time, which to be honest, I really really did during the summer of 2020. But I had fun when all around me, people lost their jobs, got sick, drowned in their own bodies, were over worked and exposed to the harrowing sight of wards of people struggling to breathe, dealt with hundreds of people whose recovery from the illness was never complete, who boxed each other in the supermarket aisles for toilet paper, or just lied to the press and thus to all of us about checking their gimlet eyes when what they were really doing was living out the exact same entitled exceptionalist game that Dominic Cummings professed to be pushing against. So I thought about how to express all of this, the slippage of memory, the fear, the relationships I have and the relationships of others. I thought about what things unify us and are also tinged with sorrow because of this catastrophe, the inability to travel, which reminded me that this clusterfuck of ambition and being a sub par human had diminished the meaning and purpose of our passports. I looked for an object that signifies this state and immediately thought of the mask and wondered if people who wear them now who had earlier abjured the niqab square it with themselves and if they will go back to their old ways when the coast is clear. I thought about ideas of belonging to a group where it is difficult to tell one individual from another. And decided to commemorate that.

Installation:Photograph on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:5 W x 5 H x 0 D in

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