Declaration (Carter) captures a screen-framed moment from an Oval Office address—President Jimmy Carter mid-gesture, lit for emphasis, flanked by ceremonial drapery. The image is stylized, digitally altered, and theatrically composed. It doesn’t document a speech. It isolates belief.

At only 5" x 7", the scale suggests intimacy—a relic, a fragment, a preserved utterance. But the conceptual weight is outsized. Within The Triumph of Romanticism, this piece reframes political speech as emotional architecture. The Oval Office becomes a stage. The gesture becomes a glyph. The moment becomes myth.

The image doesn’t preserve Carter—it isolates the machinery around him. The Oval Office becomes a set. The gesture becomes choreography. The address becomes artifact. In this fragment, Declaration (Carter) exposes the emotional architecture of political speech—not as persuasion, but as ritual. It’s not a record of leadership. It’s a freeze-frame of Romantic authority.