Social distancing guidelines have changed how we navigate in public. Our personal boundaries have exploded outward from our bodies, and walking past someone on the sidewalk has changed from a forgettable encounter to a breach of personal space. “Too close”, a limit previously measured in inches or feet for most of us, is now measured with a yardstick, preferably two of them if someone isn’t masked up.

“One of the central tenets of my work is a desire to answer to the question of how a woman, by virtue of being a woman, makes others uncomfortable.” — Bernadette Despujols

For many of us who share our homes with animals, the quarantine has provided a chance to spend more time with our companions. For artist Julia Oldham, her connection with rescue Pomeranian Woodrow goes back much further than the shelter-in-place order.

It can be difficult to concentrate on making art while surrounded by home’s many distractions, such as Netflix, social media, baking sourdough bread, mortal terror, and the possible collapse of civilization. For sculptor Bob Clyatt, though, the quarantine has offered a chance to work in his studio without interruption from the outside world — or whatever’s left of it.

Gallerist Tarrah Von Lintel and her partner, makeup artist and stylist Eliza Blow, teach us how to isolate in style with several glamour shots from their hidey-hole in Los Angeles.

Neon Genesis Evangelion presents itself as a giant robot anime, but action loses its centrality as the series progresses. Minus the tropes of the genre, Evangelion presents a story of how dysfunctional individuals try (and fail) to live their lives while facing a mounting unavoidable catastrophe.