Lenka Clayton. How We Thought it Would be and How it Was. 2025. Paperback book. 9.5 x 11.5 inches.

Clayton uses the typewriter as a drawing tool to compose a series of intricate, date-stamped drawings that playfully map out shifting proximities between people, places, and days during a period of isolation wrought by Covid-19. On 09/22/20, Clayton draws social distancing in the supermarket as a series of x’s wrapped around a corner. 10/12/20’s IMAGINED GERMS ON THE MAIL shows an envelope crawling with bacteria made from an illegible stacking of fonts. Like a Richter scale recording seismic shifts in social and domestic space, Clayton’s tactile drawings index visible and invisible forces in equal measure.