I Shot

82.25 X 70.25 inches, colored pencil and graphite on paper

The name of each person drawn is someone from my childhood. The guns progress from old and basic at the top to newer and absurdly powerful in the center, and to the final two guns at the bottom, which are fictional—from a video game and cartoon. As the violence escalates from left to right and top to bottom, the patterns become increasingly complex, following the Fibonacci sequence. Shots multiply and grow in regular, predictable increments, as if the recurrence of human violence is inevitable. The final line loops back to the start as I implicate myself.