"...the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out..."-Robert F. Kennedy
Perhaps no artist spoke with such clarity of message and in such detail about America as did Norman Rockwell, to whom this sketch is an homage.
American With a Mohawk emerged when my initial sketches of the veteran, before I detailed his cap, looked like a guy with a mohawk. It takes all kinds of Americans to make America, and, thanks to our dense popular culture and iconographs like Norman Rockwell, we have a great deal of common understanding. It takes only a few differences to fundamentally alter each citizen's American experience (else the military man might also sport a mohawk.) To be at the mercy of fate and unpredictable consequence doesn't feel like equality, and often we rage against it. Some are more at ease, but we are all free to pursue our happiness.
Speaking out in prose and sketches is how I chase my happiness. Thanks for listening.
God bless you, and God Bless America.
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