I would propose to create a painting exhibition that focuses on the ways people symbolize their sense of "self" through their belongings. I would like to create a new series of 6-10 paintings, that range up to 30x40" in size, that feature the interiors and objects that populate people´s homes. More specifically, I would like to emphasize the types of consumer goods that people fill their domestic interiors with during isolation due to the Covid-19 pandemic. I have included an oil painting of a stocked refrigerator in my portfolio, which I consider to be a modern day vanitas (Image 1). While my past works fit into this theme as well (images 3 to 10), I would like to create newer works that center in more specifically on modern vanitas. I have also incorporated one painting-in-progress of and ice-box freezer (image 2) so that the committee can see the new shape this series would take. To create the series, I plan to accumulate photos that colleagues, friends, and family have been asked to snap of foods and items they have stocked during the pandemic. This would include their refrigerators interiors, for example, so that I can create new paintings focusing on such imagery.