Abstract
Starting on March 16, 2020, I began keeping a personal written and visual record of my experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The record is in the form of visual and written journal entries posted online through my personal, private Instagram and Facebook pages. The project started simply as a way for me to document the quickly changing facets of day-to-day life during the pandemic but slowly evolved into a place to punctuate time by sharing trials, tribulations, and rituals surrounding a new normal. This essay represents diary excerpts from the first 74 days of social distancing, for the COVID-19 pandemic, in Los Angles under California’s Safer at Home order.
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Elizabeth Bogumil
Elizabeth Bogumil resides in Los Angeles and is a PhD candidate at University of California Riverside (UCR). She is a qualitative sociologist engaging in scholarship at the intersections of health, social support, resources access, place, community organizations, and policy. Elizabeth also holds a degree in Cinema Television Arts and is a 3rd generation photographer who often weaves arts-based research methods into her research process.