On February 14th, 2018, Nikolas Cruz, a former student of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, entered the school with a legally obtained AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle and opened fire on students and teachers. He killed 17 and injured 17 more making it the worst high school shooting in the nation's history.
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 04, 2020
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