First Impressions Of The Great Pandemic

Produced during the first week of the UK lockdown. using what was at hand — a scanner, some paper, a cutting mat and a scalpel, the series is a loose and creative interpretation of the events as we were perceiving them, through compositions made of symbols. As a symbol, the virus takes multiple forms:

- reflected in multiple identical eye shapes, developing/multiplying where the pupils should be.

- as a birdlike creature descending on a tower block. This same shape is seen hovering over four crosses, which stand for both the linked arms of an invigorated community, and tightly packed grave markers.

- a virus/human hybrid, ejecting shard-like pieces of itself which float away from the body.

- as a kind of spaceship-like, symmetrical spiked object seen floating along two frames, moving undisturbed across the basic boundary of the frame without regard or sentiment.

Other symbolic imagery includes an undulating shape moving across two frames, acting as a general impression of the graphs and daily analyses which we are all watching at the time of writing; clusters of square forms randomly organising into varying densities; and of course, two coughing heads.