To pass the time, is a series of paintings and drawings that explores the collective experience of enforced isolation, the sense of being suspended in time during long lockdown periods, which replicates and extends the universal loneliness of the human condition in the 21st century.   

Focusing on the experience of solitude in my own bedroom, ​​the series reflects a dimension where I can exist at my own whim, detached from ideals of cleanliness, beauty and productivity. With a critical magnifying glass to the female body and behaviour, I aim to endorse comfort in these depictions, permitting unproductive tendencies and allowing space for anxiety.  Represented by the ‘oodie’ motif,  the main character is an oaf-like, lazy form, removed of physical body shape, whose gender is ambiguous.

These fragmentations of one being, exist in their own euphoric, over-saturated and colourful plane, escaping from the realities of being very alone, with only the internet to call a friend. The nights simultaneously embraced self-love or conjured a numbing disconnect from reality. A space where time is immeasurable and emotion is allowed and all encompassing. These lurid visuals relate to ideas of perception, relaying a perceived narrative from the outside world fused with thoughts from within, our conscious and subconscious mind. Feeding into a larger concept of how the body and mind process life, time and space.