6.06 am.

Colour photograph looking into a den made of branches and leaves, in an outdoor woodland setting. The dawn sunlight is shining through the leaves from above.

The Den is a series of meditative works in sound and other media that gather material from Sop's regular trips to their 'den'. In response to circumstances during lockdown, they take solitary walks at dawn in a nearby wood and cemetery, socially distancing from all but the buried, rediscovering the healing power of nature. There they have made their own secret den, which has become a calm, nature refuge where they can hide in public and go 'off grid'.--Summarised from Artquest's website https://artquest.org.uk/project/wfh-residency/

[London], 2020.

1 photograph : chromogenic colour print on paper ; image 61.1 x 92 cm, sheet 76 x 101 cm

"Artist Sop explores alternative strategies for self-care during the Covid-19 pandemic through a series of meditative sound works. As someone in the "clinically extremely vulnerable" category, Sop was forced to shield during the pandemic. They narrate the process of building a secret den in a cemetery at the edges of a wood near where they live. The den provides a space for respite, deeply connected to nature: a structure of protection and safety in which to take shelter."--Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/X2s3IBMAAHbq_CtG

Documentation related to Sop's commission is held by Wellcome Collection, reference PP/SOP https://wellcomecollection.org/works/f2hw3jyp

Companion print to (work): 6.09am. (b3288056x)

1/5 (1 in an edition of 5).

Sop. All rights reserved.

Wellcome Collection 3288036i

Printed by: Metro Imaging, London. February 2021.

Prints of the photographs 6.06 am and 6.09 am accompanied the installation 'The Den' at Wellcome Collection, London, 18 May 2021 - 13 June 2021.

Title provided by the artist.

The photograph was taken at dawn (6.06 am) in Spring / Summer 2020.

The work is a set of 2 prints: 6.06 and and 6.09 am.