One of my new year's resolutions for 2020 was to make one new abstract photograph per day. I gave each image a title, which with hindsight made some kind of (sometimes obscure) commentary about my state of mind on any particular day.
Looking back about a year and a half later, the 48 images taken during the first UK lockdown seem to me to form a kind of mental diary, reminding me of a particularly peculiar time in (everyone's) life.
I couldn't have known it at the start of 2020, but the combination of abstract visuals and disconnected text fragments now seems to have perfectly captured the strange mood of the time between 25th March and 10th May.
(to see an image title, hover over or tap the image)
Stay Home, Save Lives
Tense Nervous Headache
Inertia Creeps
Government Sanctioned Exercise
You Love Nature
All Together For The Floral Dance
Covid Hands
Wordsworth Vibes
We Didn’t Start It
Birdshit Cave Painting
I Know It’s Gonna Be Alright
Rapid Aye Movement
Nine Post-Haircut Poses
Liquified Isolation Cube
Body Of Work
Mask Jellyfish
Not Out
Small World
Mega Mega White Thing
Bill The Rocking Horse
Nature Finds A Way
Suede Egg Mouthfeel Trauma
Back To The Back
Welsh Seaside Espresso Scream
Contact Tracing
Role Model For Recalcitrant Doghouse
It Was Before They Aimed Through The Days
Nineties Shoegaze EP Cover
Sink Bear Jet
The City Rebuilt Itself Out Of Its Own Ruins
Check The Record
My Friends Are Glowing Rectangles Now
Avian Self Portrait
Funky Provence Crimefighter
Doable? Yeah It's Doable
Rabbit Kicked The Bucket
We Are Watching You While You Sleep
Repeat After Me
Really Topped My Joy Y'all
Elastic Band Of Time
Exploding Heart
We Are All Made Of Stars
Today’s A Submarine
I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself
Hold Me Close Don’t Let Me Go
Peace In Our Time
Simple Pleasures
