These two pastel works were completed in May 2020 whilst in lockdown and so attendance at college had not been possible since the end of March. The drawings were inspired by the photographs of Antoine D’Agata whose thermal images of the streets of Paris during lockdown were to become symbolic of the sense of loneliness and other worldliness of the city streets everywhere. He started taking thermal images from the start of the lockdown in Paris to illustrate the effects of the lockdown on the streets of the City. I first saw the images in The Financial Times Weekend magazine and more were available online. The majority of the photographs only show one person and the sense of loneliness is heightened by the small figure against a backdrop of immense buildings and wide streets. A woman outside her apartment putting her rubbish out; a man on an escalator; a man walking down a street; and a few people in a queue socially distanced, conveying the isolation of people during the Lockdown. I found them haunting and inspirational and started using the images in the studio practice. I made a number of charcoal and pencil sketches of the different photographs and used pastel to create the blurred effect of the images. The colour contrasts representing cold and warm areas from the thermal imaging also evoked the strange images. The pastel works displayed here were my favourite images from the photographs. The photographer did not give any titles to the individual photographs so the titles are my own.