On July 16th, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission launched from Cape Kennedy base in Florida. The mission was to put a man on the moon. On July 20th, Neal Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon and an estimated 650 million listened to his now famous words "...one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
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.
