My Response to Covid-19

My initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic was to design and construct a wooden chair using measurements as a strict governing set of rules in its creation. Measurements can create a finite impression of an object with a beginning and an ending. My artwork is concerned with exploring how people are governed and moulded by city spaces. Now confined to my parents house with an uncertain future, I have been exploring how my own immediate constrained environment is influencing myself and my practice. Searching for reassurance, I have designed and handmade an oak chair using meticulous measurements and 80 year old tools that once belonged to my great grandfather. During this unquantifiable time of uncertainty and distress, the chair and the measurements anchor me to a semblance of certainty. The chair is an object which immediately defines a space with its universally recognisable form. The making process and the object itself are reflections of my desire for stability and reassurance in an uncertain world. By placing my chair into local public spaces, my intention has been to fill the absence of meaning and purpose in our empty public spaces.