On January 15th, 2009 flight 1549 took off from Laguardia international airport in New York City flew through a flock of geese causing damage to both engines on the Airbus A320. The captain, Chesley Sullenberger AKA "Sully" was forced to make an emergency water landing into the Hudson River. Only a few passengers sustained serious injuries and none lost their lives.
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: March 07, 2020
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