When the Covid pandemic took over my life in 2020 it caused me to think about death and all of the sudden, unexpected things that cause it, which is what I explored in my Sustained Investigation. I began drawing plague doctors and plague nurses to represent this pandemic, to reveal the constant presence of death in our lives.  The drawing of the bubonic plague nurses with the sun and moon (in Image 2) reflects that death is a natural part of the life cycle. Image 4 of the person in a trance from cuckoo suggests the craziness of our finite amount of time. Images 5-8 depict different things that can kill us: smoking, poison, viruses, and violence. I explore our lack of control in the remaining images, the randomness of life, and the fact that we are not always in control of our fates. My drawings become increasingly bizarre as I imagine different layers of reality, and my final image suggests the possibility of a greater spiritual order to life that we can only imagine.