This would have to be one of my favourite pieces to far. I did this piece on the day that the deaths in the UK raised a considerably amount over night.
I have a holiday planned in June that I have been using to help me get through the current lockdown. On that day I had three conversations with people telling me that my holiday will probably get cancelled and flights won’t start till September. When receiving this news, I felt so angry and frustrated at the thought of forever staying in the house and not having something to think about, like a light at the end of the tunnel. I decided to paint a large face at the front and along the side, with resemblance to a clown and along the left of the painting having several small character faces. The smaller faces are to represent being overwhelmed and frustration. I feel having the different faces over-lapping one another helps to portray that.
The number in the corner is of the numbers of deaths in the uk of that time and I feel it represents a date. As the lockdown goes on, I loose track of the days, but when I go on social media, all I see is number of deaths. I found it interesting how frustrated I got when being told my holiday would be cancelled, showing how much I depend on that idea to help me through.
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