On August 9, 1945 American forces dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Boy" on the Japanese city of Nagasaki killing an estimated 80,000 people. Japan surrendered to the Allies on August 15th, 1945 effectively ending World War II.

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.