This painting is part of a series that considers vanitas in a modern-day circumstance, which came to light when the pandemic hit the globe in March 2020. The paintings reflect on the mass panic induced by the Covid-19 virus and how the idea of “stocking up” became crucial and almost primal as a response, in a notion to survive. In the traditional sense, these vanitas allude to themes of plague, desperation, dehumanization, and loss. Such imagery evokes the threat of food shortage and consequent adjustments made to daily life in how we order and preserve the foods we stock.