As the year went on, and the fatalities from the virus increased, I felt the need to produce a hand stitched piece of textile art commemorating the lives every person in the UK who had died from Covid-19.
I was, however in a quandary. I had finished University in June and had not been able to get employment after my graduation therefore had no income of my own. My husband who is a Project Manager, and who works via contracts through his own Limited company finished his last contract in April 2020. Due to the government’s ruling he was excluded (see #excluded UK) from any of the governments grants and support payments and we did not qualify for any universal credit. We therefore had to live off the savings that we had during the whole of the year. It was my intention that the scale of the project would help people who see it to understand the enormity of the impact of the pandemic for one year, and understand that for each stitch, there are the families and friends left behind who are also affected. It would also put into perspective that this number was the death toll from only one small country in a truly global pandemic. Due to the large number of stitches involved I anticipated that this work would take several months to complete as I would be the only one undertaking the embroidery.
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