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<\/figure>A dark, black and white mudroom of a house. Restricted sunlight streams in through the cell-like glass of the closed front door, barely illuminating the crooked room.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
A black and white deserted elementary-middle school parking lot. Gloomy clouds roll overhead the empty front steps of the school.<\/p>\n<\/div> A black and white sheet of piano music. An untouched and unsharpened pencil rests alongside a COVID mask and mechanical pencil, casting shadows of work incomplete.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n A muted view through another grid pane of glass, glimpsing into the bright outdoors. Reflected in the mirror hangs a lit painting of a woman with an umbrella walking freely in an autumn forest.<\/p>\n<\/div> A closeup shot of the ivory keys of an upright piano. Dust tops the keys, at odds with the green color breaking into the room from the window beyond.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n A mirror image of the first, showing the same mudroom and front door, though straightened and flooded with color of the bright, natural sunlight.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/p>\n\n\n\n All of these photos are taken from the house\/surrounding area that I was forced to spend several months in during the COVID-19 quarantine. This was a particularly difficult time for me as it turned me from a generally social kid to a closed-off person that I am still working on undoing to this day. During the quarantine, there were several days where I didn’t even set foot outside, despite living in a rural location where the closest neighbor was well over 1,000 feet away. The elementary-middle school I attended nearly shut down completely, essentially canceling school for the rest of the year as early as March of 2020. When I later began attending high-school, my drive to complete homework had become completely shot as I lost motivation to do much else. However, I took a piano class during my freshman year with a fantastic teacher that greatly helped me. I wouldn’t go as far to say I am good at the piano, but just messing around with the keys and trying to learn sheet music gave me something to work towards despite the virtual schooling. That was my first step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A collage of images from the home I quarantined in during the COVID-19 pandemic. Though I did enjoy the extended vacation it gave, it did more damage to me than I originally thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":11281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project-1b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11287,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274\/revisions\/11287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/caramoncotroneo-project1-02-1.jpg\")
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nCOVID-19 and Quarantining<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n