Installation of ink drawings based around a webcomic
Between November 2020 and June 2021, I wrote/drew a sort of online journal. I did it for myself but shared it with some friends as I made it. It was, simply, a thing to do and focus on during the dark days of the UK winter lockdown and it is by no means a polished piece.
The storyline was a rewriting of some letters I had written that contained a thought: our connection to others, the obvious ties, and then the invisible ties that we don’t know that we have, and the connections we feel for people we have never met, or who even exist in another time frame and space.
They were written to someone I have come to think of as “Little Bird”. She is real, and not. She is my neighbour, my own young self, my own daughters…or a young migrant child of 100 years ago… 150 years ago…or a child in a war….a displaced child…or a child curled up in a ball, crying to me that she will have to deal with the pandemic forever.
