Spring cleaning is an age-old custom of cleaning the house after winter and in preparation for spring and the renewal it brings. Rituals of physical cleansing have also been used since ancient times to absolve from sin or ethical wrongdoing. In the first spring of the COVID-19 pandemic, cleaning and disinfection rose to a different level, to a matter of life and death, protecting us from the spread of a deadly virus. Bleach is considered one of the most effective disinfectants against most bacteria and viruses, including COVID-19, but, like most chemicals of its kind, it can also have a poisonous effect. In this series I explore the destructive effect it has on my Polaroid images of spring, as its smell overtook our homes during that first spring of the pandemic. The Polaroids were taken during my walks in the urban nature in central Ankara between April and June 2020, when, in the height of the first lockdown, I felt an intense need to experience spring. Going outside the house in Turkey at that time was discouraged for any purpose other than shopping for essentials. So, my rare walks were guilt-ridden, and the bleach, which protects us from the spread of the virus, also became a symbol of the way we try to cleanse ourselves from our possible role in the onset and spread of the pandemic.