‘Leaving Isolation’ is play on words; a pun. 

It is a joke shared with new imaginary friends found while living alone, in isolation during Melbourne’s 111 day Lockdown in 2020.

Processing emotions, sanitising theories, engaging in shadow play;  these works show individual native leaves that resemble expressive faces collected on permitted daily walks. 30 small, 15 x 21 cm still life studies in ink and watercolour are hung to reference a calendar month during Covid-19. 

The work considers the nature of ecology in the anthropocene while confronting emergent psychological myth-scapes during Lockdown.