Lockdown 2
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These photographs were made in my old flat during lockdown, when the space became a closed system shaped by repetition, fatigue and neglect. I photographed the kitchen as I found it, without cleaning or rearranging, using a DSLR and available light to record unwashed dishes, dusty surfaces and small accumulations of residue.
Working closely and returning to the same areas over time, I treated the kitchen as a site rather than a room, reading plates, worktops and sinks as layers that mark the slow passage of time. The work draws on a micro-archaeological approach, where domestic mess is understood as evidence rather than failure, and on psychogeography, mapping how prolonged confinement altered habits, attention and care.
The images hold the space still long enough to be read as a record of survival rather than disorder.
