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#19 Edition365 2021; Simon Roberts (multimedia)

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Edition365

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Artist name: Simon Roberts Image: A Daily Sea (meditation on loss), 2021 Edition: 1 of 1 **Collection** From [ART3](https://art3.io/drops/edition365/), Edition365 is a once-in-a-century art & photography collection documenting the historic events between 11 March 2020 and 10 March 2021: a portrait of the year that changed everything. 365 days, captured in 365 artworks, now on sale as unique NFT editions of one. **Caption** On March 19th, 2020, the UK entered a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the virus known as COVID-19. From this day, Simon Roberts began a series of seascape photographs posted daily to his Instagram account alongside a related poem or quote. His daily photographs continued through the year, covering all three national lockdowns, with the last image being taken on 19 March 2021. In this new video piece 365 photographs are brought together in one timeline, thereby representing an extended meditation on this most significant time in our shared history. In such moments of collective and personal upheaval, the sea represents one of the few ever-present, physical constants in the world, whose calming effects are well-known. But the sea is also symbolic of life: tranquil one moment, turbulent the next, it represents the unpredictability of existence; its smooth, placid surface may conceal a raging storm to come. Through repetition, itself a meditative act, we see one sea in 365 ways, sometimes rough and tumultuous, other times serene and mellow, from dawn to dusk. Roberts' record of this ever-changing body of water are unified by one horizon throughout; the remarkable point at which the sea seems to touch the sky. The piece reflects on the enormous tragedy of the pandemic, pausing on one photograph taken on 22 January 2021 when coronavirus mortality figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that the UK had surpassed 100,000 deaths. Weaknesses in governance led to avoidable mistakes and caused the UK death toll from covid-19 to pass 125000 by the first anniversary of the UK lockdown, one of the highest mortality rates in the world. Behind every statistic is a person lost and a family grieving. [Read the story on ART3.io](https://art3.io/2021/11/behind-the-image-simon-roberts/)

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