Living In A Blur is a video installation by Simpson Tse (Melbourne, Australia, 1984) that contains 12 video loops filmed using Jitsi, a video conferencing application with a default function called ‘background blur option’. During this time of stay-at-home working, we have grown accustomed to this blurry virtual environment, and have begun spending a considerable amount of time living in it. The installation Why Are We Pretending to be Clocks? is comprised of laundry racks, engraved acrylics of screenshots taken from Living in A Blur, and silk-screened pillowcases. The work points at both domestic work (such as laundry) and online work (such as virtual meetings) as forms of affective labour, which have often been called ‘feminine labour’. Especially during this period of confinement, housework can be rewarding, and a strategy to stay sane and to stay in a sense of control.