On April 20th, 2010 a deepwater oil extraction point in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect ruptured. Considered the worst environmental disaster in American History, Deepwater Horizon spilled nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil into the ocean.
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.
- Created: October 2019