The following series of videos, collectively titled A Lockdown Diary, were originally created as immersive moving images that engulfed my living room, transforming a domestic space into a living art installation. They are presented here as individual works, or alternatively, as chapters within a visual diary.

Each video acts as a visual sketch exploring different thoughts, themes and experiences that emerged between March and August 2020. I consider them intuitive responses to the experiences, observations and peculiarities of life during lockdown.

Comprised primarily of stop motion animation, collage and experimental video, each piece tells its own visual story. The works also reflect my visual responses to research into Dada, Surrealism, Bauhaus, late 1970s and early 1980s music videos, alongside the practices of artists such as Pipilotti Rist, Joan Jonas and David Hammons. The result is something of a nonsensical brain stew of moving images, ideas and visual experimentation.

Although created in 2020, the videos deliberately draw on the aesthetic of early 1980s music videos. Most are constructed from several animated clips, each approximately 13 to 30 seconds long. Originally conceived as starting points for ideas that were eventually abandoned, these fragments have since found a new purpose as scratch videos, resurfacing and reappearing within non-narrative works.

Some videos are silent, while others feature eclectic soundtracks ranging from ragtime jazz to the dramatic sound effects of an over-the-top science fiction film trailer.

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Descriptions can be found in each video's individual YouTube link. 

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