How will enforced solitude reshape the way I work? I am open to change.
This is a philosophical position that acknowledges the global disruption and catastrophe that we are facing and that any response takes time and consideration.
I will not compartmentalise and work on regardless like a machine. I will not ‘move everything online’ as though digital and real world spaces are equivalent.
I will try and respond sensitively and proceed cautiously. I will explore how the loss of personal safety has reshaped our sense of being in the world. I will not expect too much of myself other than to be observant and curious. I will pose questions to myself and my artist peers. Those questions will consider the role of creativity and its expression under pressure and in confinement.
As someone who works in the digital space – as a contributor to national arts conversations, as a builder of websites, an art director and designer – I’ll be interested where the investigation takes me. It might be in this digital sphere, but it may not. I already know that the longing to connect with the people I love, and that includes my artistic collaborators, is strong, keenly felt, and acted on every day. We need each other.
