Helen Sargeant (She/Her)
One week in October, October 2020
Drawing and Stop Motion Animation
I have become utterly physically and mentally exhausted by the extra emotional care work that the Pandemic has demanded of me as an artist, mother and wife. My home has become a school, an art studio, a music studio, a gallery, a publishing house, an office, a laundrette, a therapeutic space, a canteen, a cinema, a computing gaming centre, a night club and a pub. Home has been eroded and it is no longer a place of rest.
One week in October explores ideas of pandemic time being located in the body. It touches on ideas of anxiety in relation to death. About a desire to connect to others and to nature, of circular as opposed to linear time. Sadness, loneliness, mundane routines of caring for cats, humans and maintaining a home. Counting days, being patient, filling time with creativity. Tearing my hair out. Walking near my home. Gaining weight. Thinking about freedom and flight. Suffering from insomnia.
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