Made in 2020 as part of Isolated Observations, an exhibition of work made in response to the Covid 19 lockdown.

Nowhere man was made a few days after ‘Somewhere’. I was thinking about identity and how in our culture this is often tied to what we do for a living and the perceived status that this brings. Careers and work lives, do after all take up a very large chunk of our waking time.

I imagined that for many people, there was a loss of identity and an unravelling of who they thought they were, a whole society of people entering a groundless phase of liminality and uncertainty. As terrifying as this can be, and it is terrifying, I do feel that there is a certain freedom that can come from being in this sort of experience, a sort of stripping down and building back up can occur that is more congruent to the potential human being, rather than the human doing. An opportunity to ask ‘who am I really’?

This process however takes time and support. Will these things be given I wonder?