'The Periodicity of the Wallpaper' for WIOP Vol.2

Currently in semi-lockdown within the walls of our North London house-studio are myself, my partner and our cat Bourjey.

When lockdown was implemented we were in the midst of renovations. Only one room in our building - my studio - was still displaying its wallpaper. Having decided to down-tools until the lifting of the lockdown, I find myself sharing a space with this wallpaper everyday without much relief. It has become my daily task to draw the patterns of this surface that surrounds me.

The floral motifs and their periodicity transform and distort over time; mirroring the distortion of reality occurring in the world outside these four walls of paper. Alongside the various stages of motif are portraits of our lockdown family - myself, my partner and our cat.

Us, the wallpaper and the ever increasing periodicity of our meetings continue...