This was a commission started near the end of 2024. I thought I had done the commission but it turned out I'd misread the request. So I started this second, more correct, version. Then the election happened and I was thrown into a creative slump/tailspin. I'd pick it and do small bits over 2025 and I did a lot of other drawings over the year, but every time I picked it up to work on it, it brought the election into mind. It was a sort of creative PTSD. Finally I was determined to finish it, now in 2026. To confront the emotional baggage cause I finished it during the state of the union address. It's a relief to finally have it done and I'm ashamed it took me so long to push through it.