On April 4th, 1968 James Earl Ray, a fugitive from prison, shot and killed Martin Luther King Jr. As a civil rights leader, King was in the pubic eye. He had received death threats before and even told his wife that he would die at the hands of an assassin one day. He also believed that his assassination wouldn't stop the civil rights movement that he had worked so hard to move forward.

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.