How long is forever? The White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland will tell you, “Sometimes, just one second.”

A day could fly by, or it could feel like one endless loop. The concept of Time may be elusive and abstract, but it is also deeply intimate and personal. In Circadian, the artist tracks her relationship with Time in a series of works that were created during each specific hour of her 24-hour circadian cycle across the lockdown period.

“With no need for a social clock or social obligations during the lockdown, I simply listened to my natural circadian cycle – sleeping and rising to the natural rhythms of my body. Some days appeared to stretch on end, while nights seemed to merge into the early pre-dawn hours in one never-ending cycle.”

The resulting body of 24 works is a series of small paintings and sculptural pieces created in the artist’s makeshift studio at home. Each work, made at the start of a different hour over the days of lockdown, is the artist’s attempt to time capsule her evolving mental and emotional state.

The artist experimented with painting on new materials of plexiglass sheets and blocks. Here, her painting moves beyond a typical two-dimensional plane, with each reflective surface of the painted translucent forms shifting and changing according to the quality of light and the angle at which it is displayed. Appearing simultaneously solid and ephemeral, the plexiglass works also suggest the artist’s altering perception of the passage of time as her circadian cycle moved in and out of sync while the world was (and is) in flux.

With lockdown, one’s personal space becomes your world. In rediscovering domesticity, the artist installed these works in her own home-turned-exhibition space. The virtual exhibition also includes a selection of older works from the artist’s portfolio, taking viewers through a glimpse of her practice from past to present.