The series On the Ground is a response to the fear and vulnerability that I and many Asians and Asian Americans continue to experience as we live through the Covid-19 pandemic when violence towards Asians is ongoing. Due to misinformation spread by then-President Trump, who called the virus “Kung Flu” and blamed China for the pandemic, Asians are being targeted as the source of the Coronavirus. These works, in which I am lying on the ground, channel emotional anxiety into the body and reclaim a charged and potentially dangerous exterior space. In my ruminations on the female reclining figure, I remove any element of status and sexuality often associated with the female reclining figure, i.e., the odalisque. In essence, a pose that may be passive is instead an active stance, a metaphor for a lie-in.