1. Download Instagram

2. Clean your apartment. Wash the dishes and wipe crumbs off the counter. Do not sweep the dust bunnies in the corners. Let the marks on floor stain.

3. Learn about social injustice from the comfort of your apartment.

4. Get plants and let some die.

5. Drink coffee late in the day.

6. Pick up smoking to accompany the afternoon coffee.

7. Stay awake until the early morning watching TV, and sleep until noon because it is more normal to be alone in the dark.

8. See friends on long walks outside.

9. Stop cooking and eat mostly popcorn.

10. Do not read books because they encourage creativity.

11. Listen to podcasts because it is more passive yet feels creative.

12. Start a knitting project you do not have enough yarn to finish.

13. Fall in L--- with a friend you cannot touch because cases have begun to rise.

14. Do not exercise.

15. Have a full time job.

16. Stop lying to people when they say 'hey, how are you?'

17. Look out your window, then smile and wave at a neighbor!

A Guide to Not Making Art in 2020







from the point of view of an upper middle class, queer, white woman