How lockdown affected my art

If you had asked me in my final year of Easingwold school what I imagined my life to be like when I turned 20, I’m sure like everyone else I could never have predicted this…

I celebrated my 20th birthday in 2020. What an age to be alive! A repetition of the wild 1920s parties was the expectation. A sense of freedom of finally leaving my teenage years was ahead of me.

But I guess before the roaring 20s, came the devastating Spanish flu influenza pandemic with millions dying.

If we are to find optimism in our hard times, we can look towards history. From the desolation and turmoil of the Spanish flu, grew the liberation and exploration of the roaring 20s- and I for one hope that the hardships we are all experiencing is a prediction of the unity, elation and empathy we will feel towards each other .

Only 2 days after turning 20 in March my university closed and I was scooted off home for a summer in and out of isolation. And with that my isolation art began….