Repeat these two phrases: “keep stepping” “stay hydrated”, practice saying them one after the other again and again until they’re meaning is lost. Repeat them so much so that you no longer have a clear idea of which phrase did indeed come first. Now, as they stick together like glue in your mind, imagine you have a large attic space to manoeuvre in and a bottle full of water.

I did this very act when working from home today. There was no one in my open plan living space other than me and I was beginning to make plans, plans to swap the living area with the studio area - to make more of the light. I stepped, I drank, stepped drank. I kept stepping and continued to drink, always at the turn of the next phrase on from the other. Stepping and then drinking and then stepping and then drinking and then stepping and then drinking and then stepping.

I continually maintained my hydrated steps as I circumnavigated the stair well at the centre of the room. Keep stepping keep hydrated - I then began to time myself when doing this, I decided to keep to the same time when circulating the stair case itself. It would take one minute, if I stepped and sipped slow enough, to set off and return, by a circular walk, to one particular spot. This spot was next to the orange sofa, which marks the beginning and ending of the living space. On the other side of the stair well, either a direct diameter or half a circumference away (several steps and several sips) lies my desk and detritus of studio space. The centre of the room acts as a divide, quite simple really, just like a pie chart: one half of the circle covered in shit the other side covered in slightly less shit.