Stay Alert: Documenting a Pandemic is a diary-like documentary and fragmented glimpse into life under lockdown in Cornwall. Spanning more than 50 days and 7 weeks, the piece compresses time into a 5-minute sequence, blurred, non-linear, and disoriented to mirror the stillness, repetition, and quiet confusion of life under stagnant and confusing restrictions. The PM told the country "We must stay alert", and so I wanted to express a sense of quiet anxiety, waiting, confusion and the act of noticing things we would typically pass by, unnoticed.

Sound design weaves in unease, echoing the anxiety-laced rhythm of media coverage and public messaging. This piece captures just one experience among millions. During the Covid-19 pandemic, time felt both slow and suspended, as routines dissolved and we retreated into personal bubbles, unsure of what might come next.