From February 28th to April 19th, 1993, a joint force of Texas law enforcement, and federal and military forces laid siege to a compound owned by the Branch Davidians who were suspected of stockpiling illegal weapons. The siege ended on April 19th when the FBI launched an assault. A fire started and consumed the compound along with 76 of the Branch Davidians including 20 children, 2 pregnant women and David Koresh, the leader.

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.