6 Dioramas is a suite of songs for six voices. I wrote them in 2020–21 during the early isolating months of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Each of the six singers of Variant 6 sent me an email describing their experience of quarantine. They were remarkably different both in content and linguistic style, but together they created a collective portrait of a fascinating and complicated time. These songs — the musical concepts and the lyrics — emerged from those six emails.