Declaration (Bush) captures a stylized moment from a presidential address—George W. Bush seated before flags and seal, mid-sentence, mid-performance. The image is digitally altered, rendered in high contrast and saturated tones. It doesn’t document a speech. It isolates the ritual of authority.

At 5" x 7", the scale is intimate—suggesting a relic, a fragment, a preserved gesture. But the conceptual weight is outsized. Within The Triumph of Romanticism, this piece reframes political speech as emotional theater. The Oval Office becomes a stage. The gesture becomes choreography. The moment becomes myth.

This is not a portrait. It’s a broadcast glyph—an artifact of Romantic power, stylized for belief and stripped of context.