Zoom
Zoom, just one look and then my heart went boom Suddenly and we were on the moon Flyin' high in a neon sky, oh oh...... Len Barry/Bobby Eli For as long as I can remember the word 'Zoom' was, in my head, immediately followed by the words above, it's only context being the song by Fat Larry's Band, peaking (I'm reliably informed by Google) at number 2 in the charts in 1982. Not so, any longer. Over the past year Zoom has gone from being novel to mundane, yet still provides a way of meeting people in real time from the confines of our own homes, in a way that would have seemed space-aged to my 12 year old self listening to the aforementioned song. And, for the past couple of months it has been the focus of a creative project I have had the privilege to lead. The brief was simple, to produce a self portrait expressing how you look and feel on a Zoom call, the paths it took me down, turned out to be somewhat complex. For reasons best known to the powers that pull