The Benenson Award has allowed me to use a variety of media in response to different phases of my summer across North Carolina and New York. My project stratified layers of my quarantine experience. From Durham’s stay-at-home order and quarantining with my roommates in the midst of Tiger King, DIY cocktails, and graduating from college, to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and returning to my parents in Cuomo’s strict lockdown as the state’s coronavirus cases declined. I experimented with lights and acrylic sheets, water-based acrylic paints, collaging with weekly The New Yorker magazines, and sketch markers alongside my traditional oil paints.