‘Twilight Zone’ and the pandemic inspired artist Kaitlyn Beiriger’s South Loop mural

Artist Kaitlyn Beiriger’s 2021 mural “Time Piece” at 1014 S. Michigan Ave. (Austin Hojdar / Sun-Times)

In a 1961 episode of “The Twilight Zone,” a hobo, circus clown, ballet dancer, bagpiper and Army major find themselves trapped in a cylindrical room with no memory of who they are apart from their outfits and zero concept of time.

“We’re nameless things with no memory,” the ballet dancer says. “No knowledge of what went before, no understanding of what is now, no knowledge of what will be.”