It has been a busy term both teaching at CCW and studying on the PgCert. Whilst I have not been working in the studio on my art practice as much as I would like, I find that an important space for thinking through ideas and breaking up screen time is that of the local lido, which I visit most weekdays. In some ways, the physicality and sensation of this space is totally opposite to the tutor room, yet as I consider the floating, darting, splashing subjects around me, it also becomes a metaphor for the freedom to be found within the delineations of teaching. Indeed, prominent theorists on gender Judith Butler (see https://www.cccb.org/en/multimedia/videos/judith-butler-the-city-has-something-in-common-with-a-prison-when-it-never-ends/229346) and Jack Halberstam, both refer to the importance of the public pool to them on a personal level. When Halberstam says, “We swim therefore we are in motion”, I would like to take this also as a starting point for thinking about the fluidity of the peer group to embrace new ideas, change and move in their thoughts and practice, to continue though exposed and somewhat vulnerable, to adjust tempo and direction.