Commissioned by the Los Angeles Times for the cover of their 2020 YEAR IN REVIEW Sunday section. Published December 27, 2020.
2020 YEAR IN REVIEW, cut-and-pasted printed paper, collage, and mixed media on wood panel. Size: 24 × 18 inches.
Photo credit: David Braud /www.davidbraud.com
Many thanks to Deputy Design Director Kelli Sullivan, and her colleagues for this cover assignment.
How do you capture such a monumental year and its extraordinary, historical events in one single image?
Using scavenged headlines cut from Los Angeles Times newspapers along with found objects, I combined painting and collage to depict the fury of 2020 in my latest work.
The central figure represents all of us peering through the window as we witness the upheaval of America: lockdown due to the spread of the coronavirus, job loss, racial injustice, and deep political division unfolding before our very eyes.
The stripes on the American flag are tattered and worn, the figure in the window stands in isolation, the all-too-familiar mask worn by the individual, and the fire outside the window depict elements of this year - unprecedented chaos.