October 2025

Started on the day the news broke and the first photographs surfaced of the demolition of the White House East Wing, The Witness captures a moment when history seemed to fold in on itself.

The 2025 tear down was carried out without the standard public review process to make way for a privately funded ballroom.

A young girl looks on, holding tight to the beauty of her flowers as history crumbles. Children swing above the ruins — a nod to Ben Shahn’s social realism and to the uneasy balance between innocence and denial.