Medicine Wheel

In the artist Chris Drury’s blog ‘Art in the time of Coronavirus’, 27 March 2020, the artist explains “[Medicine Wheel] was a critical piece for me made at a difficult time of my life, my wife and mother of my two small children had moved away leaving me on my own in a small cottage in rural Kent. In some ways the isolation was similar to the self-isolation going on now but more acute because of the separation to my children. However I was beginning to work again and was using what was around me — nature... looking down. As I bent down to pick up two lapwing feathers, I realised instantly that I should make a work by doing just that: picking something up off the earth every day for a year to make an object calendar... The work intimately followed my year... I did not know it at the time but it took me down into a state of mindfulness where everything became connected.’