In her conversation with guest curator, Dev McCauley, Bailee Hiatt talks about how her artistic practice and outlook have shifted during the public health crisis and the ongoing national movements for racial justice. In the face of the unsettling tumult of 2020, Hiatt and a number of other Seattle-based artists turned to murals as a way to respond to the world around them while simultaneously imagining new realities. The dread that Hiatt felt when businesses boarded up at the onset of the pandemic was followed by a feeling of possibility, "looking at these plywood boards in a different way, they really just turned into a canvas.”