Happiness and its Longevity

Depicting a 21 year period of my life, this abstract from is generated from a body of statistics which highlight the UK's annual birth-rates. Starting at my own birth, in 1998, it represents the unified impact of a generation.

Born into Numbers

 Human loss, throughout the Coronavirus Pandemic, has always been a fearful factor, possessing national and international significance. Here, I realise how 12 months of death, can manifest itself visually.
 Despite this blackened abstract form physically existing within the confines of its container, it still holds metaphorical notability within the real world. This sculpture’s structure and composition, is generated from the statistics of daily Covid19-related deaths, throughout the United Kingdom, over a 12-month period. The fluctuation of movement, within the rectangular segments, depicts the increases and decreases in national deaths. A mere millimetre of compositional change in this piece, represents the loss of over 100 lives.
 Here, we share viewpoint of researchers, victims and bystanders, as we can examine the data, and behold the loss, which has changed our modern world. This form exists among us, and still is being generated. We will all have experienced encounters of a Covid19 death, and here they are collaboratively met within a singular form.


Evidence of Consiquence

13 sculptural forms, capture key turning points of the UK's coronavirus response over a 12-month window. Here, the daily temperature ranges, are reinterpreted and translated in a sculptural format.

The 13 days are as follows:
1 – February 21st 2020: The First Coronavirus Positive Test in the UK
2 – March 5th 2020: The First Coronavirus Related Death in the UK
3 – March 16th 2020: Announcement of the First Nationwide UK Lockdown
4 – April 23rd 2020: Human Vaccine Trials Begin in Europe 
5 – May 5th 2020: Opening of the Nightingale Hospital in the North East of England
6 – May 28th 2020: NHS Track and Trace Released to the UK Public
7 – June 29th 2020: The UK’s First Local Lockdown is Introduced
8 – September 18th 2020: UK Announces an Inevitable Coronavirus Second Wave
9 – October 31st 2020: A Total of 1 Million Positive Coronavirus Cases is Recorded in the UK
10 – November 5th 2020: Beginning of the Second Nationwide UK Lockdown
11 – December 8th 2020: The First Pfizer Vaccination Administered in the UK
12 – January 4th 2021: The First Oxford Vaccination Administered in the UK
13 – January 5th 2021: Beginning of the Third Nationwide UK Lockdown


Looking Forward to Looking Back

Questioning how mathematics can be realised in an artistic format, this 2-part-composition is generated from the annual value changes of both Copper and Zinc, the two element that combine to make Brass.

Alloy-Value: Brass

 Generated fro a body of statistics, 'Transitioning Times' highlights both energy production and emissions in recent years in the UK. A gradual curve, made from recycled aluminium, depicts the renewable energy production increase. Meanwhile, a staggered fluctuating curved form, made from carbon steel, mirrors the gradual decrease in the nations carbon emissions.

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