I started cutting many little lino blocks way back in the pandemic lockdown. I was recording phrases that summed up what we were going through, but after a while it became so depressing that I had to give up. It’s taken a long time to feel able to go back to them, some of them remind me of awful times , but I really want to do this work. So today, at Swansea Print Workshop, I began to print them up onto small pieces of fabric. It was okay, I didn’t get the negative reaction that I’ve had when I tried to return to this topic before. I used Speedball fabric ink onto a fine cotton.
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Yes, I’m surprised to return to these little blocks and read what’s on them. How we started (at least here in the UK) quite optimistically, an all-in-this-together attitude and how it all unravelled and became very dark.
A bit of time and distance, it helps. I have just finished watching a medical drama where the season started with a COVID episode then jumped forward. The biggest surprise was that I had forgotten so much of what had happened and what the early pandemic was like. Human nature, protecting ourselves I guess.