I have recently been painting crowds of people in common spaces, a normal and sometimes daily experience everyone has in our modern society, as a common ground for all individuals. That is, until this pandemic. What was a mundane, sometimes irritating aspect of moving around in public spaces has become both dangerous and nostalgic. The subject matter of crowds in it of itself have been transformed into contemporary commentary, the timeliness almost a little too real. This painting of a crowd at a baseball game, baking in the sun and squeezed onto the stands, is a moment that will not happen this season. Created during self-quarantining and in isolation, this piece is completed in an effort to bring hope into the present, to reflect on what we unknowingly took for granted, and look forward to better days ahead.