Bobby Davidson
Title: “US Letter”
Year: 2011
“…papers massed in the air, contracts, resumes blowing by, intact snatches of business.”
In Don DeLillo’s “Falling Man” he describes a scene of both disarray and chaos at ground zero on the day the towers disappeared from the New York skyline. Is it possible that something as simple as an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper falling from a sky of ash have the ability to connect an individual with this tragedy without being directly affected by it? Is this beautifully tragic? I am interested in the idea that one can see this debris falling from the sky as physical evidence of a person and how that can somehow unite us with that stranger and the events that took place.
This series was inspired by images and documentation taken during 9/11. I was not physically present to witness this event. So with this found footage I recreated an imagined 9/11 through a digital illustration.
Work by Bobby Davidson. See more here.
