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":13243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2273,307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,266,12941],"class_list":["post-13242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-photography","tag-selects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}