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This week Lesley Hicks speaks about her methodical drawings from traffic webcams in Iceland during lockdown:
“The experience of being imaginatively elsewhere, aided and encouraged by the webcam screen landscape, is replaced, through this process, by the being here in the studio, returned back to the here and now by the physical act of making.”