Barrow is stationed behind an Amiga computer, repurposing an antiquated animation program to tell the story of Melania Trump’s pandemic era birthday party. In an effort to engage purposefully with a live audience, Barrow asked people registering for the performance to participate in “drawing quizzes”. iPhone users to use the IMessage “sketch” function to respond to simple artful tasks which obliquely addressed distressing predicaments of the day. In the “manually animated” performance, Melania makes her own cake, wraps her own gifts, and cleans up after herself. Each scene acts as a showcase for the audiences’ IMessage drawings, which have been narratively recontextualized by Barrow’s fictional monologue. “Beauty’s Rules” was created in a time of overwhelming anxiety, when we were required to endure everything in isolation. We are united by our collective problems, and yet each of us must individually confront the elastic nature of being alone/together, having/not having family, having/not having security, having/not having physical well-being, safety and freedom.