My Isolation in hospital inspired this piece. Every day I gave the staff a series of numbers, these were my temperature, my oxygen levels, and my blood pressure. These numbers are all they saw of me and all I saw was the hospital room. I printed my experience, the hospital scene, on the reverse side of the paper on which I had recorded my numbers in hospital. This reverse side would be against my body as I moulded the paper to my form and, like in hospital, the side with the numbers would be all anyone could see. I copied the paper many times and covered myself with the sheets using starch to bind and mould them, I liked the use of starch as a binding agent because in exchange for the numbers I received rice to eat. It felt like communication through starch. The wateriness of the starch mix also meant that the ink from both sides of the paper blended making the border a grey area, I didn’t know where one side ended and the other began.
私はコロナで病院に隔離されていた。毎日カーテンで仕切られた同じ風景を見ていた。そして一日に何回か熱、酸素量、血圧を記録しそれを看護師に伝えていた。その中で私は自分を数値で見られていると感じた。
私はそれらをプリントし自分の身体を覆った。
私はそれらをプリントし自分の身体を覆った。