In March 2020 Bath Spa University found out that it was going to have to go virtual due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Unfortunately, for the arts this was going to pose as quite a challenge. Additionally, for us third years this was quite a shock, 3 years of our degree cut short, no graduation in summer, no degree show- we were all so disappointed and upset. Many of us felt as though we had worked tirelessly for three years for it to be taken away from us and for us not be be able to create the perfect final major project was scary. However, I guess lucky for Bath Spa we’re lucky enough to have amazingly encouraging tutors who powered us on and have now made us realise the benefits to this disaster.
We’ve had a couple weeks of isolation now and I feel as though I am seeing the benefits of it in relation to my work. My project focuses on Spiritualism, I was originally going to document the Spiritualist churches in my surrounding areas but obviously due to lockdown this eventually became impossible. Therefore, I had to change the way I looked at the subject matter. Thinking back to previous tutorials, discussions occurred about capturing the feeling of spiritualism, after all its an invisible way of life. Therefore, i have been focusing on the idea of ‘energy’ whether that be using light or movement as a way of capturing the feeling of energy related to spiritualism.
I’m currently waiting for film and scan to come back to me (its been 2 weeks though) but after that I will update further on how the project during isolation is going.