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Artist Mark Lombardi (1951-2000). His interlock drawings are detailed visual representations that map out complex networks of financial transactions, political connections, and power structures. In his work related to the Iran-Contra affair, Lombardi illustrated how shell companies and banks were used to covertly move money and facilitate arms sales, revealing the intricate web of relationships between government officials, private entities, and financial institutions involved in the scandal. His drawings highlight the secretive mechanisms and financial maneuvers that enabled illegal activities and the circumvention of oversight.
His “interlock” drawings, which resemble flowcharts or diagrams, are influenced by methods typically used in forensic accounting and legal professions to track connections and transactions, and has often been referred to as conceptual or “investigative art”.
Mark Lombardi died on March 22, 2000, at the age of 48 (weeks before his first major museum exhibition and six months before 9/11). He was found hanging from a beam in his studio in Brooklyn, NY, and his death was officially ruled a suicide. However, due to the nature of his work—which involved exposing connections between powerful figures, corporations, and illicit activities— there has long been speculation that he was murdered. His drawings were studio by the FBI after 9/11 and several thousand of his index cards used to document is research were confiscated. Much of his archive is now held by New York museums, including MoMA and the Whitney.
https://www.moma.org/artists/22980 
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