Intro
The timeline has a beginning, a middle, and an end that traces the apex of the restaurant's clash with the pandemic in early March. The goal of the timeline is to zoom out from the eye of the storm in order to observe what was happening at the macro level and understand how it intersected with what was going on at the micro-level. To achieve that, the timeline is populated with state and national public announcements juxtaposed by our own internal communications, including some timely ethnographic observations that Minjeong had compiled for a Spring semester class because despite having lost most of the staff due to an abundance of caution coupled with aggressive stay-at-home orders (including myself), Minjeong and her husband, Jihuk, managed to open Acre for 3 days, keeping the promise to serve the community.
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You'll observe the public communications on blank white slides, the gold-colored slides contain private/personal correspondence while the charcoal-colored slides correspond (unfortunately) with death and demise.
"Everyone left New York City. And then, you know, it was only me and Jihuk... that was the kind of condition that we went through"