This week I was working right up to the deadline, and it was at this point that I genuinely thought I might not finish the installation in time.

The repetitive act of passing needle and thread through the paper introduced a meditative process that mirrored the themes of the project.

As the project developed, I moved away from my original proposal. Material testing, conceptual refinement, and making processes led me to replace the noren curtain and timber grid with a unified installation.

The unmoulding revealed the suspended photographic layers and the slight shifts between them, which created the visual instability I had been aiming for.

The following week, the next step was to begin cutting each cyanotype so they could be fitted into the orange safety barrier fencing.

The school break became less of a break and more of an intensive production period that allowed the project to move forward at the scale I needed.

My installation, Life in Pieces, sits alongside two digital video works Unsolvable and Frustration, forming a cohesive system that examines the experience of living within a body that no longer functions in a predictable or unified way.

The second attempt on the making of the resin head proves a success.

How can my interdisciplinary practice across street photography, cyanotype, and installation explore the interval between movement and stillness through the philosophical concept of mu (無) in response to a body whose mental and physical capacity is changing?

New decision to add a second video into the installation to communicate the internal frustration and physical tension held within the body.

This week I completed my first resin pour for Life in Pieces, documenting each stage of the process.

Researching new technologies and experimental approaches has allowed me to consider how digital processes can be applied meaningfully within my body of work.

This work in progress develops Life in Pieces through sketches and working drawings, exploring how stacked and layered concrete forms can create a structure that reflects instability.

This week I attended an extra class with Andy with the first-year degree students to learn the early photographic technique - Cyanotype.