Completion Date: 21 October 2020
Medium: Paint & ink on acid-free mount-board
Dimensions: 30 x 40 inches
I recorded the main news headlines in real-time from 05h00 Pacific Time on 03 November 2020 until 08h24 on 07 November 2020.
All components are painted on acid-free mount-board, and then glued onto acid-free mount-board. Two coats of matte acrylic varnish are then applied.
* 03 Nov 2020 *
05h00
Polls open in America
16h15
Looks like highest turnout in a century
16h36
Biden wins Vermont. Trump wins Kentucky & W-Virginia
16:38
Florida’s early numbers are in and the results are mixed
17h02
Biden wins Rhode Island, NJ, Delaware
17h05
Trump wins Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Mississippi
17h06
Biden wins Connecticut, Maryland, Illinois & Massachusetts
17h25
Mitch McConnell wins a seventh Senate term
17h43
Tight battle in Florida
18h01
Trump wins Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, N-dakota
18h02
Biden wins New Mexico & NY
18h04
Trump wins S-Dakota, Wyoming & Nebraska
18h37
Twitter begins labelling premature calls
18h39
Biden wins DC & Colorado
19h00
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s win in Georgia brings QAnon into Congress and the G.O.P.
19h11
No Big Prizes Awarded Yet
20h03
Biden wins California, Oregon & Washington State
20h04
Trump wins Kansas , Missouri, Idaho
20h15
Lindsay Graham hangs onto S-Carolina seat
21h11
Biden wins New Hampshire, Hawaii
21h23
Trump wins Ohio, Montana, Iowa
21h38
Trump wins Florida
21h49
Trump tweets “We are up BIG”
22h03
Biden wins Minnesota
22h32
Trump wins Texas
22h39
Nail-biter election is down to the wire
22h40
Trump & Biden both predict win
22h42
Twitter & FB label posts from Trump, but only Twitter moves to limit their spread
23h30
Trump falsely asserts that he has won
* 04 Nov *
00h51
Biden wins Maine
05h53
‘The Squad’ all win re-election.
08h54
Nation braces for a long wait
11h36
Biden wins Wisconsin
13h14
Democrats hoped for big gains in Iowa – bruising losses instead.
14h13
Biden flips Michigan, closing in on 270
15h44
Twitter flags Trump tweets prematurely claiming victory
17h18
Awkward silence abroad as the US presidential election remains in limbo
18h00
Trump campaign files lawsuit to stop vote counting in Georgia
* 05 Nov *
08h15
Still too close to call
10h08
US reports the most single day cases since pandemic’s start
10h46
Trump’s 1st Georgia lawsuit dismissed
11h23
Trump files multiple lawsuits
17h55
Trump: “If you count the legal votes, I easily win”
18h12
Fox News meets Trump’s fraud claims with skepticism
18h14
Biden urges patience; Trump lies about count
* 06 Nov *
01h58
Biden takes the lead in Georgia
03h22
The race tightens and tightens and tightens
08h45
Biden leads in Pennsylvania; Win there would be decisive
10h25
Excruciating – still too close to call
* 07 Nov *
08h24
Biden wins