This work was inspired by my personal experiences in COVID and our shared experience of it in this country. I was working in the police at the time, so I worked throughout the pandemic and had my first child. I remember thinking several times while at work and doing other normal things, like food shopping- generations in the future won’t believe this happened.

I was looking for a creative way to capture these memories and to present them in some kind of timeline.

It was on a random visit to Reading museum in 2021 that I came across the replica of the Bayeux tapestry exhibited there and realised a tapestry/embroidery could be a perfect way to present my memories. It also made me notice how much of the language used in politics and the press during covid, sounded like battle language.

The quote on my embroidery comes from one of the first press conferences held by Boris Johnson and his advisors in March 2020.