The main starting point I wanted to work on for my project, is making psychological pieces. I had to isolate within my flat for two weeks, not leaving for fresh air and stuck in the same walls with very little natural light, so this appeared to be a perfect opportunity to express the emotions I felt during this time. In Isolation, inspiration was very hard to find and if I gathered any inspiration, it did not last. I found myself focussing on things around my room I had never really paid any attention to before, like the different shadows, shapes and overcasting blacks that contributed to my bad mental state.

By presenting these images next to each other in black and white, I think I capture the sense of loneliness that seemed to worsen over the isolation period. It interests me how a simple photographic presentation of a room can generate this emotion, without me explaining it. I have received comments from other artists, who seemed to feel the same things I did, without having been there or experienced what I have in this time.

The sombre editing of these pieces creates a sense of entrapment and lack of ability to roam and let the mind be free. I wanted to express the importance of freedom on creativity as well as presenting the overwhelming emotions that I felt during this period. After this piece was made, I had a discussion with my tutor, who inspired me to do a film based off this, in which I would film just these little moments in each part of the room, which remain still -but almost with this powerful presence that makes the audience feel enclosed in this ‘room of darkness’.

Over this isolation period I found myself writing obsessively about art and its meaning, and linking this to the world, and the importance of different techniques, inspirations and community. I wanted to incorporate this poetry-like writing into the film I created about isolation. In this film towards the end I overlapped the footage, which creates the sense of mania and paranoia that I experienced as isolation went on.