Over the Christmas holidays, as many, my partner and I got Covid. Both mild cases being vaccinated and boostered. To ease the frustration of all that got canceled and of isolation, I turned into making.⁣⁣
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I painted and stitched one composition every day reflecting and using blocks, shapes, sizes, colors, wrinkled canvases and thread’s pattern to represent my physical and mental state for the day. Frustration level, physical symptoms, activities done during the day, number of (virtual) connections with friends and family, if I took a home test or not and the result.⁣⁣

They are rough, as those ten days were.⁣
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Abstraction has always informed my work as a designer, and creating codes and structure for myself when composing is always part of the process. In this case I am playing with looser data points that do carry meaning for me only. Each element carries particular significance and connects to a larger story of isolation during these times, trying to put all the feelings in perspective.⁣⁣

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I have started to paint and stitch in my spare time only recently and I am enjoying playing for the primary sake of visually composing on a canvas, soothe my mind and create memories of a time that feels lost. (Yes, for the first time there isn’t a legend!) ⁣⁣
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I’ve added the final touches to each canvas only yesterday, well out of isolation: adding symbols for the feelings of a new year beginning. ⁣⁣