In early summer 2020, during the most severe period of lockdown, I received an invitation from Eames Fine Art to take part in a project. During our first group Zoom, the gallery picked names out of a hat, pairing artists and writers to respond to the project’s title
‘A Common Place’. I was paired with the talented poet, Samuel Moseley Webb.
Having not met before, the novelty of collaborating with a complete stranger in the midst of a pandemic made it surprisingly easy to find common ground.
The project concluded in winter 2020, with a lockdown exhibition in the windows of Eames Fine Art Print Room showing each pairing’s work.
Samuel and I had built up a friendship, and with the success of our first collaboration behind us, we embarked on extending the project further.
We continued to meet up at various parks and landmark trees across London.
We walked and talked about how the pandemic was impacting our routines and how it felt as though time was passing more quietly now, marked only by the light and shadows around us changing as the seasons continued to roll by.
‘Patience’ is a reflection of these conversations, in these places, as we watched each other’s journeys throughout this unique period of time.