'Covid-19'
2020
Stuck in a boat,
in a boatyard,
in Gweek,
in Cornwall.
We were the lucky ones ... locking down in what (we think)
is the most beautiful place in the world.
Living in a bubble.
Living to avoid the lurgy,
(and the sun shone)
Now,
looking back,
I realise that my pre-lockdown normal life was quite solitary.
This locking down,
This new normal,
to me,
was really no different
than my previous normal normal.
I do talk to people ...
I do see people ...
but those I normally talk to are not normally around me.
I normally socialised through social media
or on the phone,
or by text.
Should I feel worried about this ?
Should I try to have more actual human physical contact
in a safe socially distanced way ?
Am I weird ?
Now I type this does it even make sense ? ...
'more socially distanced actual physical social contact' ??!!!
Lock down actually made me talk to more actual physical people ...
The physical people who,
like us,
were stuck in their boats,
in this boatyard,
in Cornwall.
This boatyard of people ...
who all guiltily confessed ...
in hushed tones ...
to each other behind our hands ...
that we were actually rather enjoying this new world
of staying at home !!
I am happy in my normal socially anti-social narrow world.
I am too busy ...
There is not time in my world to be physically sociable.
I live in my boat,
I go to my studio,
I walk my dogs,
I socialise with people in a safe cyber world of artists and makers
(and my mum on the phone)
And my work ??
Well it's still being made from discarded objects
found in the same boatyard as before lockdown ....
The only difference is I that now don't have to physically see
the man to fire my previously used clay elements.
And
that's
OK
in a boatyard,
in Gweek,
in Cornwall.
We were the lucky ones ... locking down in what (we think)
is the most beautiful place in the world.
Living in a bubble.
Living to avoid the lurgy,
(and the sun shone)
Now,
looking back,
I realise that my pre-lockdown normal life was quite solitary.
This locking down,
This new normal,
to me,
was really no different
than my previous normal normal.
I do talk to people ...
I do see people ...
but those I normally talk to are not normally around me.
I normally socialised through social media
or on the phone,
or by text.
Should I feel worried about this ?
Should I try to have more actual human physical contact
in a safe socially distanced way ?
Am I weird ?
Now I type this does it even make sense ? ...
'more socially distanced actual physical social contact' ??!!!
Lock down actually made me talk to more actual physical people ...
The physical people who,
like us,
were stuck in their boats,
in this boatyard,
in Cornwall.
This boatyard of people ...
who all guiltily confessed ...
in hushed tones ...
to each other behind our hands ...
that we were actually rather enjoying this new world
of staying at home !!
I am happy in my normal socially anti-social narrow world.
I am too busy ...
There is not time in my world to be physically sociable.
I live in my boat,
I go to my studio,
I walk my dogs,
I socialise with people in a safe cyber world of artists and makers
(and my mum on the phone)
And my work ??
Well it's still being made from discarded objects
found in the same boatyard as before lockdown ....
The only difference is I that now don't have to physically see
the man to fire my previously used clay elements.
And
that's
OK