‘Unnatural: Collective Resistance’ is a series of drawings that explore the theme of resisting to ‘bloom’ or ‘emerge’ as a natural reaction to oppressive forces. Thoughts and worries were collected anonymously from the public and projected to demonstrate the collective resistance or anxiety that many people feel reemerging after many months of lockdowns and limited social contact.

This project was a reponse to the theme of the Festival in 2022 being ‘Re-emergence’ and is an interpretation of how our everyday worries, or more serious anxieties, around existing in an ongoing pandemic are a collective experience and not only individual, though isolation may leave us feeling otherwise.

Graphite, watercolour
Projected looping animation