The Self-Isolation Residency 26th may 2020: Day 58

When all else fails you can't go wrong with drawing.

I do consider myself to be very lucky in lots of ways as far as our current situation is concerned. Don't get me wrong, in many ways, although the west coast of Scotland is a wonderful place to be, I am far from happy being stuck here when I have to be separated from my partner who has had to stay in the States as a key worker. But we are both making the best of our current circumstances. As you can see for me this means a time when I make new work and also reflect on my work that has gone before. I have, or am, working on many new projects mainlt connected to the current situation of on long term projects that I haven't had the proper time to pursue previously. Over the last couple of weeks something has started to emerge through my work in quite an unexpected bu organic way.

A few days ago I posted some images of some hand drawings that I have been doing and talked about what great exercise they are to keep your drawing skills fresh, particularly at time like this when its perhaps harder to find different things to draw from day to day. Although I am currently working on a very different drawing project i have continued to work on these very free drawings, predominately of my left hand, to keep my skills fresh and free. Over the last day or so as I've been doing this I have started to think that they have a strong relationship to the self portrait that I began this self-isolation residency with and that perhaps this is something that I should start to explore more as a significant project for these times. After all this means that my left hand, as something that I brought into this lockdown situation with me, is a viable candidate as another subject of self portrait for me. But probably not in the form of a single image, for this project I may have to delve more deeply and consider how  my hand, particularity my left hand represents how lockdown is effecting me.

I feel another work in progress starting here, but that is just the nature of the beast!