At the beginning of lockdown, like everyone else, I didn't know what to do. I couldn't relax, my mind couldn't rest and it blocked me from being creative.
Everyone's thoughts were on the Coronavirus and the illness, COVID-19, that it was causing. Worldwide it has caused the death of 74,816 people have died, 5,373 of whom were in the UK. For the foreseeable future, the numbers will only go up.
As a way of rationalising what was happening in the world, I focused on the Coronavirus itself - balls of RNA protected by protein and stuck together with grease. The shape interested me, the wild internal mess of RNA and the outer corona of spikes that reminded me of a sea mine or bomb. I was initially drawn to capturing the sphere in milliners wire and adding the protein spikes later but realised that I didn't want this to look controlled and rational.
I didn't want to recreate a science drawing.
Instead, I I wanted it to look wild, like a Vandal, both in a reference to the barbaric ancient Germanic tribe and the modern mindless destroyers. I wanted the result to be capable of throwing a dark, sinister shadow, and the RNA to be visible. 
I formed the sphere and Protein spikes loosely in 3D pen and allowed the movement in the extrusion of the PLA plastic to control the outer net. It seemed highly appropriate that  the material was in control, not the human hand.
The internal RNA was created from something harder and colder than plastic, I chose wire, a stretched out coil of strong orange, knotted, looped, twisted and chaotic. A strong contrast to the outer black casing.
The final long dark shadow completed the piece.
​I called it  TIMEBOMB-19.
I didn't know if I would want to destroy it as soon as I had made it, as a way of feeling in control of the situation, or drop kick it into the allotments... ​I'm still not sure what to do with it.

If I made it again, I'd make it huge and suspend it, Cornelia Parker-like, in the centre of an empty room, the walls decorated with faint black and white images of all the people it has destroyed. The TIMEBOMB -19 lit internally by one blinding white light that projects the aggressive shadows out in 360' degrees and onto the faces on the walls.