Unfinished MA

Five years after starting I have finished my project for the Counter-mapping module on the unfinished MA. I began this in April 2020 and finished the physical act of crocheting the time spent in the first lockdown in May 2020. I struggled to document and write about the work at the time but revisiting the MA and my collected documents from the course has helped me contextualise the work differently and probably better than I would have been able to contemporarily. 

Given that I am not submitting this to someone grading against a marking scheme, I have taken some liberties with the form and content of the accompanying ‘essay’ for artistic reasons and neurodivergent ease.   

I have an aversion to photographing the timepiece and photocopying made more sense to me. I am very satisfied with the results. It looks confusing and smothering like the pandemic. Repetitive and monotonously chaotic like the lockdown. Very detailed and flat like life felt for a while. While waiting at the photocopier I momentarily used the hook to hang the timepiece from my back pocket. It hung there, heavy enough for me to feel, and a bit strange, like the ghost of the experience. The metaphors have really been writing themselves with this piece of work and it feels honest.