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​Phoebe Thompson
only bedroom
2020
digital photograph
Isolation felt strangely reminiscent of being fifteen - moodily drifting around the house or existing online in my bedroom. My parents were both teaching from home (with intermittent outbursts of German) so my bedroom was the same comfortable-cursed haven as back then. Not really happy to be in it, but lacking in other options.
Nonetheless, there was beauty. I took vitamin D for the first time, and found that I liked rain. Walking in the wet of winter, the parks were peaceful, and at home, you could almost forget the restrictions. There was so much space to spend on introspection and treating myself with deliberate, loving gentleness. It almost makes it easy to look back with foolish nostalgia and miss the free time.
I briefly thought about tattooing this window on myself as a symbol of getting through rough times, but it can be permanent in this medium instead.
Phoebe Thompson is an emerging curator, visual artist, and poet living and learning on unceded Wurrundjeri and Boon Wurrung land. Their multi-disciplinary practice is concerned with sustainability, the built and existing environment, womanhood and identity, and familial relationships, whilst placing value on intuition, catharsis, and sentimentality. They recently curated events at MPavilion as an M_Curator including 'Art As Action: Ecology, Resilience & Sustainability', a panel of Australian artists whose practices investigate environmental issues. They are in their final year of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT, where their artwork is currently exhibited online in ‘Museum of Me’.
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