The Bayeux tapestry is an 11th century embroidery, made in England, that documents the events that surround the Norman invasion of England in 1066. As I prepared for a residency at La Maison Dora Maar, Ménerbes, France in 2025, where I made these drawings, I was interested in this artifact. One of the reasons is that it has stunning, if not scary, contemporary relevance, detailing many of the ills that beset the world today; greed, violence, destruction, superstition, corruption and deceit.

The actual embroidery is over 200 feet long and details events leading up to the invasion. I decided to just use some of the scenes that seemed most prescient and relevant to our current world.