Whether consciously or not, we prepare. In the two years before COVID, I started to collect heaps of scrap and drift wood. Then, during the pandemic, after never having done so, I began to make vertical things, using all that scrap wood as their framework. After a dozen of these vertical objects “appeared,” I thought, well, my horizontal life, the life of relationships, has been suspended. The vertical, that inner aspect that (put simply) connects the ground to the divine, is having its say. I call these objects Totems, emblematic of this time out of time.