The brief for the Centenary of Caring project was to respond to the group discussions in a 'low-tech, hand-made and inexpensive' way. It had to be personal and relate to the conversations we had had with our group. 

"Who looks after the strong ones?" was a reoccurring statement during these conversations. This made me think of my fathers own role during the pandemic as a Consultant in Public Health. Although he has had to work at home he has been working very long hours with very few breaks. Its hard to imagine how he would have coped if we were not here to look after him while he is busy.

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My initial ideas were to write or sew the text onto a face mask, I tested this idea using a photograph of a mask. Although the typed text looked better I wanted to use handwriting as it felt more personal. This is when I had the idea to use my fathers handwriting. He wrote the text onto paper for me and I transferred this into a PNG image. I transferred this onto the image of the face mask, however I felt that the use of the face mask actually detracted from the statement. Because of this I decided to embroider the text onto a plain piece of canvas.

I then experimented with photographing the piece in the window, as the photo was taken in the early evening there was limited light outside which created an interesting background for the photo.