During the winter of 2020, when we were all in the depths of ‘COVID survival mode’, I attended online photography/writing classes through Santa Fe Photography Workshops. One class was writing postcards with images to capture what you were experiencing at the moment and mailing them to someone you wanted to reach out to. The other class used a Zine format to explore a particular topic. We were encouraged to go deep into what we were experiencing during such a difficult time. You never know what will ‘arrive’ when starting on projects like these. Putting words with images was something new for me. These early exercises were just that; a beginning warm-up for future explorations.