My painting final. This is 4ft x 4ft-ish, and took about a month to do.

My thoughts: I am interested in work that makes really horrible things look beautiful. So I wanted to depict this violent event in a way that is very pretty, hense the absurdly pink sky and purple clouds that would never exist in real life. Also, although there is something terrible happening up above, the people below are unaffected. Even though you know people are dying here, it's just one part of the whole world, and it will ultimately be forgotten in time.

If you don't buy any of that, then this is just about 9/11. I was very close to where Flight 93 chrashed, so this is probably where this image was born originally.