GROW SOFTER// KEEP CLOSE was performed on 15th March 2020, on the brink of the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK. On a Thames beach, I lay in the yoga pose Matsyasana (the fish pose) with a piece of large piece of chalk from the beach in my mouth. As people descended onto the beach I chanted 'The Cracks Are Clogging // My Throat Is Rotting' . I then carved GROW SOFTER and KEEP CLOSE into the walls with stones found on the beach. From within my vaginal canal I withdrew a condom filled my previous month's menstruation and coated my legs with it. 

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This work was part of the event Come Hell Or High Water, activated by Sarah Andrew, Anne Bean, Hayley Newman, George Pringle, joined by Phoebe Patey-Ferguson.

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Images by Dominic Johnson and Adam Wadey.