Commander in Chief

Figures & Portraits

Medium

Photograph, composited by hand

Dimensions

Year

2025

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Song

The Sword

Barack Obama in full military dress against a war-torn Afghan landscape, out of the political suit he was always photographed in. An imagined portrait, not a real photograph. It is meant sympathetically: a president takes office and finds that the army, the navy and the air force are now his to command, whatever he came in believing. Made alongside the song The Sword.

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