Destruction From Within
Every painting in Chronicle of an Unquiet Age documents the defining events, people, and issues that shaped its moment in history. Created in real time as events unfolded, each work serves as both an original oil painting and a historical record, reflecting the belief that the news of today is the history of tomorrow.
TRTA-2026-136 | February 2026 | Oil on Canvas | 32" x 26"
February 2026 was also marked by growing concern that many of America’s deepest problems were being driven internally rather than by foreign enemies alone. Debates over border policy, crime, institutional trust, censorship, economic weakness, and political division fueled the belief that decline could come through domestic failure as much as outside attack. Destruction from Within captures that warning.The composition centers on internal fracture rather than external threat. More and more everyday Ameericans are seeing how divided America truly is and that there are credible threats coming from within. The imagery on this painting reflects how overwhelmed even Lady Liberty feels. The people who said "Trump would destroy America...
are destroying America." This is not just a random quote. In Minnesota Anit-ICE fanatics are arrested after a Church attack the included former CNN Anchor Don Lemon. Lemon doubles down calling church goers "White Supremists" and at no point in history have people storming a church service been the good guys. Rioter Renee Good is shot and killed after raming her car into an ICE officer hospitalizing him. She was a self described "ICE Warrior" who are trained and paid to attack and to impede Law Enforcement. Democrats hate ICE because ICE is deporting their illegal voting base. And as Journalist Nick Shirley uncovered at the "Learing Center"...some people "Never Lear." Democrats Gov. Walz, AG Ellison and Minneapolis Mayor Frey are part of an ongoing major investigations by the DOJ. Trump makes news by giving the middle finger to a Ford employee after Trump is called "Pedophile Protector" in reference to Epstein. Trump makes "flipping the bird" great again! Then there's the "Islamification of NYC" Islamic Marxist Mayor Mandami revokes the Anti-semitism Executive Order as his first act in office. 700,000 and counting New Yorkers have signed a petition to Recall Mandami after just 10 days. And the "Learing"continues. Remember the saying "When people show you who they are... believe them." Trump moves to ban Sharia Law in America. Destruction From Within is stark and accusatory. It suggests that nations are often weakened not first by invasion, but by negligence, dishonesty, and division from within. The painting preserves a month when many Americans feared the greatest danger was already inside the gates.
