In April 2024, off the back of a hectic February and March, Nicklin suddenly found his work had dried up. These periods are challenging for everyone, but for Nicklin there\u2019s a known and specific mental struggle too. \u201cI have to keep busy, if I don\u2019t my bipolar gets pretty awful, so I just have to,\u201d he says. \u201cThe contrast made me itchy so I found I was trying to think about something to do. I\u2019d always wanted to do still life, it was a form I\u2019d fallen for as an illustrator. I figured I\u2019d apply it to photography.\u201d <\/p>\n
Sourcing the subjects wasn\u2019t a problem. \u201cI\u2019ve always collected things, since I was very young. There\u2019s hoarding tendencies in my family, so maybe it came from there but I just liked having something I could take around with me,\u201d he says. This habit never stopped, and led to a small box of small things, and now a larger box of small things. Hundreds of things: ashtrays, lego men, rings, desk clocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In April 2024, off the back of a hectic February and March, Nicklin suddenly found his work had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[595,365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,432,40680],"class_list":{"0":"post-56223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-photography","19":"tag-selects"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}