Still Life with Skeleton and Candy Corn (October)

The political climate of October could be described as white hot. The month saw the president contract COVID-19, an attempted kidnapping of the governor of Michigan, and the White House Chief of Staff admitting that they were not even trying to stop the pandemic. Halloween was just days from Election Day and the nerves of an entire country were frazzled. The president was becoming increasingly more unhinged, adding fuel to the national anxiety over the coming election results. Watching the news made us all feel like the mythological Cassandra, dreading the Autumn surge which had already begun.