White House Buddha (Uprising)

White House Buddha (Uprising)
Digital collage
2001

Copyright © 2001 David Pohl
House of Pingting Archives

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White House Buddha (Uprising), 2001

Pittsburgh artist, musician and illustrator David Pohl created this piece shortly after September 11. Originally designed to be a sequential animation piece for a website, White House Buddha expresses the need for people to turn inward and toward a path of spirituality in the wake of the terrorist attacks. A popular element in Pohl’s work, the Buddha conveys the artist’s desire to see America chart a course of peace and caution in the aftermath of September 11.

-Nick Ciotola, Curator
Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center