I am am avid mountaineer that struggled not being able to travel to the mountains to climb, so I made my project about 'Imagined landscapes' so I could bring the mountains to me. This brought me hope and courage to stay strong throughout the lockdowns. Made out of clay.

This piece explores the idea of “unconscious creation” through a ritual-like performance created to be unnerving yet intimate.

Okay, so hope? It's a bit of a empirical understanding in this case. Collaborating has given me a renewed interest in the importance of co-creation, and seems to be replete amongst artist and designers more so now, than even, in the face of the geographical adversity imposed by lockdown. Hope, for technologically sustained communication, the way the world moves rapidly toward on-screen realities, that undermines and undoes claims of 'the anti-social media'.

The quarantined light series of photographs document moments where even when it seems that we’re all separated and isolated, we’re still connected to the delicate cycles of nature and the cosmos. We’re all connected to each other through these beams of light from our dear sun.

This is a collaborative piece between myself (illustration and design) and creative writing student (written poem) Anna Hopkins for our editorial project. (Permission has been granted from Anna to submit this piece). The key in Annas poem is a metaphor for opportunities and choices, the aim of the poem is to have understanding that sometimes being hopeful is knowing we don’t always need to know what those choices are will be.

Have you ever wondered what happens to those balloons that flew away? As a child, I always hoped that some alien would become the happy owner of this balloon and take care of it. Years go by, perceptions change, but this childhood fantasy is still relevant. And what happens to the people who pass away? hope someone out there takes good care of them.

The hope to pause the time we spend interacting on the screen and find joy in the non-digital world.

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