When sorting through work for proposals whilst thinking about future plans and applications, I went back to my earlier work that I did during my research paper. Originally, I’d very quickly found some paper scraps from print making and just used those to repetitively mark make during the writing of my paper to explore how rituals can help the mind and body during stress.

The whole process was very in the moment, and I’d captured them on my phone. When revisiting the images I noticed each one had a similar shadow of me leaning over them holding my phone. I cropped them and realised I like the way it obscures the print. It adds to the digification of the slow process I had originally gone through. Evidence of the immediacy of capture.

I’d like to get these printed A1, so you can slightly see the digitization when blown up.

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‘Decoded’ is a series of six works drawing on the letters of my research paper, breaking everyday language down into visual patterns that unfold naturally. The work interrogates code as an already embedded underlying structure of communication and explores how it can be abstracted into visual systems. Each work is a digital photograph of an ink drawing, contrasting the slow, repetitive act of mark-making with the immediacy of digital capture. The images sit between drawing and selfie: faint shadows of my body and phone hint at the digitisation of a slow, manual process.