Acceptance Speech Drawing

On November 4, 2008 Barack Obama uttered the following words, "If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer." He was standing on a stage in front of an estimated 240,000 with millions more watching around the globe. It was his acceptance speech after winning the election for President of the United States of America. The small physical scale of these drawings is meant to bring attention to the grand scale of these events, both physically and in their lasting impressions on our national psychology. There are a few defining moments in each generation’s collective memory that we all remember, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination of President Kennedy, 9/11. These drawings explore that national collective experience in small meditative vignettes.