11.59pm tonight marks the end of the Level 4 lockdown in NZ.

Man, we’ve been through some stuff in the last 33 days.

Fabulous dinners followed by Netflix. Zoom calls. Weird supermarket visits. Bad outfits, bad hair. Tears and meltdowns and laughter and love making. Birth and death, and significant birthdays celebrated in the smallness of our bubbles. We’ve been exasperated with those we’re closest to and longed for people we couldn’t touch. We’ve learnt a lot about the people we love most, and likely learnt even more about ourselves.

They say it takes a village to raise a child.  It’s also taken a community of people to get eachother through this lockdown. People we love dearly, and people we’ve never even met but who have said the right word at the right time to help make sense of the uncertainty.

Whatever we’ve been through, we’ve been through together, eh.

For me, together especially and most importantly means my partner and I, in his beautiful home, eating and talking and loving our way through this last 5 weeks. J, your loving steadfastness has made this time in parentheses so beautiful, despite my emotional rollercoastering. There is no one else in the world I would have wanted to do this with.

I also want to say a heartfelt THANK YOU to all of you who have bought downloads and artwork from me during the lockdown. As an artist who makes her entire living from her work, . I cannot tell you how much it means to me that via your support, I’m able to keep living this artist’s life I love, and to keep making work! I literally couldn’t do this without you.

[Together 2020 is available as a limited edition studioprint ]