Fighting the Civil War

One of the books we're making for the show is called (tentatively) The Civil War in the United States from 1619 to the Present. In it, six banners describing the conflicts of the nearly 400-year long American Civil War (ranging from race to finance to the Constitution) pass through the sculptural eye of a needle that represents the armed conflict of the war (from 1861 - 1864).

Here's a screen shot of the banners in progress...I am struggling mightily to learn the sofware as I work...

more to follow....