June 22, 2008, Inside the Interrogation Of a 9/11 Mastermind, / 2009 / gouache on paper
June 22, 2008, Inside the Interrogation Of a 9/11 Mastermind, (detail)
January 6, 2008, U.S. CONSIDERING NEW COVERT PUSH WITHIN PAKISTAN / 2008 / gouache on paper
March 25, 2008, Bush Given Iraq War Plan With a Steady Troop Level / 2008 / gouache on paper
April 11, 2008, Downturn Reviving Rift Over '96 Welfare Change / 2008 / gouache on paper
May 20, 2008, OBAMA EXPECTED TO HIT MILESTONE IN TODAY'S VOTES / 2008 / gouache on paper
May 20, 2008, OBAMA EXPECTED TO HIT MILESTONE IN TODAY'S VOTES (detail)
May 20, 2008, OBAMA EXPECTED TO HIT MILESTONE IN TODAY'S VOTES (detail)
March 29, 2008 TREASURY'S PLAN WOULD GIVE FED WIDE NEW POWER / 2008 / gouache on paper
June 17, 2008, BOOMING, CHINA FAULTS U.S. POLICY ON THE ECONOMY / 2008 /gouache on paper
After completing the 2001 New York Times drawings, I kept watch on the sociology of the front page and began to see a change in those featured “above the fold.” By 2008, the trend had shifted away from the rich and powerful toward ordinary people doing ordinary things. I thought of the Egyptian Faiyum commemorative portraits and Persian miniatures, and again began to collect the front pages of the Times for a series of gouache drawings. Each isolates only the “unfamous,” brought together by the arbitrary nature of what is considered newsworthy on a given day. The titles of the drawings pair the major headlines with the people I am choosing to commemorate.