The project can also be an educational alternative to traditional galleries and museums amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As they begin to craft lesson plans for their own students, [Todd] Lawrence and [Heather] Shirey told me they are looking to the database as a teaching tool. For her art history class, Shirey had previously sent students to nearby museums and well-known street art. Now, the beginning of her course will focus on learning from the database instead.

For [Michaela] Coel, the answer is down a path of healing and dealing with trauma. Over the season, Arabella and other characters return to the scene and visions of the crime over and over, attempting to excavate new information, As Coel recently explained to GQ, “The past isn’t ever really past. […] You have to learn to have power over the thing instead of it having power over you.”