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I wanted to make something about the experience of being there. My project was to draw a comic book about the event as it happened. I had various stations around the sites where the little books that I was making about the event could be read. I wanted to draw things as they struck me, without time to think and reflect.
I was born at the Marine Air Ground Combat Center (what the marine base at 29 Palms was called back then) and although we left when I was quite small, Joshua Tree was sort of a favorite spot for my family through the years. For each of the HDTS that I or my brother participated in my family would come out (mom or dad - sometimes both) and help with the whole process. It was a really great experience for all of us. I think that through helping with these projects my parents—and especially my dad—got to see what it was like for me to be an artist. They have always been supportive of my decision to be an artist, but in Joshua Tree they got to experience what it was really like and I think they understood it a lot better. I also think that meeting Andrea was important for them. They love her work and her family and what she has made in Joshua Tree.