“I started this painting, Girls in Tall Grass, on March 5th, right before the coronavirus pandemic took a strong hold in the US. At the time I was thinking about how leisure is often used in advertising to project women’s liberation from the outdated, mundane tasks of the domestic sphere.

Girls in Tall Grass addresses the privileged position of leisure, and in relation to this pandemic, the privilege of being able to social distance as opposed to those forced to risk their lives because perhaps they cannot afford not to.”

— Lauren Moses (Charlottesville, VA)