The purpose of this piece is to memorialize the tragedy that “The Falling Man” by Richard Drew portrays. The image shows an important choice the subject made: taking his life into his own hands. The decision he made not to allow terrorists to take his life from him and put it into his own hands was really powerful. He did not have the choice to live or die, but he did choose how.

I began by printing out newspaper clippings from 9/11 and organizing them into light and dark groups. I then calculated the size each strip needed using paper size, canvas size, image size, and the size of each line in the image. I cut each strip, then organized them on the canvas. I watercolored the parts that needed to be darker. After that, I modge-podged the entire canvas. Once it dried, I drew the man with oil pastel. Finally, I went over it with oil paint for the final product.