These works are part of an ongoing series created from my daily painting ritual during Covid-19.  When my solo exhibition, “Den of the Wild Human”,  was indefinitely postponed, I decided to expand the show’s premise of how our domestic spaces fulfill our hierarchy of needs. From shelters against the elements to sacred places for dreaming up future realities, for many, our homes have now become our only place of being. I sent out a call for people to submit their stay-at-home situations and stories. As time goes on, the unfolding of this collective coping reveals a reckoning of emotions - from spiraling anxiety to bashful gratitude. Before Covid-19, I worked on large-scale pieces over several months painting for 15 hours a day alone in my studio. Now, I am completing one small work a day and taking the time to check in with each person whose scene I am painting. I have been creating and sharing a new scene every day since my city announced its stay-at-home ordinance on March 21, 2020. 

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