Carrie Mason, Lost, 2020 – 2021 (ongoing) - This drawing started as a way for me to try and make sense of what was going on last year. I started it when the Prime Minister announced the UK first lockdown in March 2020. I couldn’t sleep, so went out to my studio and started making marks trying to process what was happening. I didn’t expect to still be making the drawing 12 months later, or for those 335 marks to become over 120,000. All throughout the first lockdown I made the drawing every evening after the daily briefing, I would go to the studio, light a candle, and quietly update the marks with the days death toll - one mark for every life lost. It became a ritual, some nights the marks took a few moments, on other days, at the very worst, it would take hours. I soon ran out of candles, but the time spent in quiet remembrance has been constant. On days when people I have known passed, especially with being unable to attend the funeral , it became a way of paying respect. A sense of disbelief has accompanied the process, at times anger, sadness, tears, but mostly a huge sense of loss.