Gouache on 300gsm postcards, 2020
I created 14 postcards in this series created during lockdown. Painted with the intention of posting out to my friends and family, providing them with a single fragment of my every day.
In my bleak Glasgow flat, my morning seat in the kitchen would overlook the garden below. During lockdown I’d often find myself mapping the subtle movements of furniture and imagining the events taking place when I wasn’t sat there observing them. I became quite fixated on the spot; a visual/social stimulus that romanticised the sight of friends, lovers & teens breaking in late at night. It drew my focus into something less consistent than my flat walls.
The postcards, when placed in sequence, animate the garden into montage.
I had the pleasure of submitting this project to @Circus_artspace in Inverness which have featured it as part of their Liminal Lives digital showcase:
https://www.circus.scot/liminal-lives-showcase
#1- “View from the kitchen window”
#2- “Gloomy skies”
#3- “Kindling pit”
#4- “Idle chairs at sunset”
#5- “Evening social”
#6- “Nightly chats by the fire”
#7- “Garden at rest”
#8- “Out with the old”
#9- “We have visitors”
#10- “Morning aftermath”
#11- “Daytime dwellings”
#12- “Lovers reclined”
#13- “Live. Laugh. Love”
#14- “In with the new”