On April 11th, 1970 NASA launched its third manned mission to the surface of the moon. Soon after reaching space, an explosion crippled the space craft. It took the combined efforts of all of NASA’s creative and engineering expertise and the prayers of the nation to bring these astronauts back safely.

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.