It is a strange moment when the message of your art becomes a reality. The whole point of my work is to make people more aware of how bacteria spreads and so to be more conscious of this and then along came the pandemic. While it is beneficial in supporting the message of my work it also has a negative impact on the physicality of my work.
Previously the work relied on people having to scan QR codes to reveal the unseen bacteria in the digital realm but now that we have all been forced into the digital realm as a result of the virus it makes the scanning and interaction with the work redundant. This has left me in a rather upset place with my work and I’ve not really been sure what to do.
Through tutorials with my lecturers, it’s been decided to just carry on making the work as if there was no pandemic or to imagine an ideal, “dream” degree show.
Hopefully, eventually, my work can again take place in the physical world, which seems like the complete opposite of what it was originally wanting.
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