In October 2022, Anna Haifisch arrived in Los Angeles from Leipzig, Germany for a three-month artist residency, where she thought she would be drawing a children's book.  But LA had other plans for her.  Swept away by the city's visual cacophony, she bought a car and began to draw her surroundings using the paper, ink and colored pencils that had been intended for her planned children's book project, recording aspects of Los Angeles both macro and micro; real as well as imagined. 

Ready America is the document that resulted:  94, horizontal, 8" x 5 1/2", full color drawings, all presented, two to a page – juxtaposed, one above another – on 48, 9" x 12"  pages of heavy, flat white stock.