After making the work on my bedroom walls I found it difficult to get going again – may have been the feeling of having a completed artwork and may have been the feeling of having to prioritise contextual research.

I have continued to think about the immersive/performative nature of the bedroom installation and how to work sound into it – I took a recording of one of Boris Johnson’s Coronavirus Specials where he and Professor Van Tam were talking about the need to isolate and restrict outdoor activity. I thought this suited the space and made a direct connection to WAWWA as a theme, however I would need to consider how this could be presented virtually.

I’ve found it difficult writing and keeping to the SOI (not convinced as I’m writing it and not keeping to it as I’m working), so I mind-mapped what I have researched/produced to try bringing me back to theme. This brought me to navigation, displacement and reference points as key phrases.

Beginning my first visual response I picked up on the uniform grid layout and how this had relevance to place, mapping, navigation and potentially to displacement. Using an instructional youtube video I began folding the unused A4 rasterbated sheets into little boxes.

If I were to make these from all the sheets on the wall that would be about 100 – could I use them as containers for transporting materials from Calton Hill? Could I photograph them on Calton Hill as photographic bricks? I like that they look a bit like public bins – also make me think of pill boxes (day by day uniformity, prescriptive, mental health, restricted).

Without thinking I have entered into another durational, factory-like reproduction experiment and again produced something with a minimal aesthetic (like Donald Judd or Carl Andre in appearance).