Recipes for Disaster 

Meal preparation during a pandemic.

Watermelon Blues, 2020

Slurping homemade escarole soup, Santa Cruz, March 2021

Slicing Beets, summer 2020

The original premise for Quarantine was conceived during the early months of 2020 home confinement: a series of short visual narratives pairing still and motion photographs of simultaneous settings. What began as a way to meaningfully occupy time during isolation evolved into a sustained political statement.

From that period of confinement emerged two chapters — The Briefing and Recipes for Disaster. For nearly a year, daily life narrowed to a dual focus: the relentless theater of politics and the intimate rituals of the kitchen. Public anxiety and sustenance became the framework of each day.

In early 2021, Lynn and I set out on a cross-country journey, leaving the confines of home to survey a nation visibly strained by political division while also seeking the restorative vastness of the American West. These travels gave rise to the third chapter, Continental Divide. The project continued to unfold during a second cross-country expedition in 2022, extending both its geographic and conceptual scope.