Deficit Hawk Down

Deficit Hawk Down. 2018.

My sculpture, Deficit Hawk Down, in the Capitol Hill Art League show at CHAW this month looks at the the world through the eyes of the "deficit hawks" who came to Washington expecting to decrease the federal debt, and ended up adding to it.

The data is CBO projections for the Gross Federal Debt (increasing from $21.2T to $27.0T in the years 2018-2024) supplemented by the Joint Committee on Taxations estimate of the increased annual deficits due to Tax Reform (accumulating an additional $1.1T in debt through FY 2024—even with macro effects on growth included.) Size: 13 cm x 28 cm.