A deranged student killed 31 of his fellow students at Virginia Tech. By painting all the students for whom I had pictures, I rendered them homage as well as pondered what their lives might have been. The common denominator to all the pictures were the smiling faces, so full of life and promise. That one unstable student could obtain a weapon and use it so freely is a sad commentary on our country. The victims are individual, but the assassin is faceless.