Margaret Gorman

Ferns, two days

Digital Tablet Drawing, Dimensions Variable, 2020.

One month before the virus crashed into us, a bus crashed into me. I went into lockdown injured and already grounded with whiplash, bruised ribs and a bashed right hand and wrist. At the beginning of lockdown, I had physical therapy three times a day, trying to get my dominant hand back and sit without pain. 

Once cleared to write again, I embraced learning, using my tablet to learn how to draw again - digitally. The digital pen was strange, a challenge to my usual drawing style. My mind often knew what mark to make, but neither hand did what was expected. 

Spring was returning, and my subjects were small and simple. Achievable. These drawings are presented here in groups to show time slowly passing. They are my recovery, with the right healing. They are learning, with the left improving. They are an exploration of the world right in front of us which we pass by and ignore. Together, they are one small story, from one garden, alone, while the first wave washed over us.