The inspiration for this painting was a news article of a Brazilian woman who was photographed in her cardboard PPE she had made to go out in. I am sure it was done as a bit of a laugh but in this image, I saw the absurd situation the world has been put in with the Covid 19 pandemic. At the beginning of the pandemic, families were imprisoned in their homes, most tried to comply with all the rules as governments around the world scrambled to navigate the fine line between saving lives and livelihoods.