According to Hobbs , who faced the overwhelming task of fact-checking Lombardi : " Certain things that are listed in the drawing are in red . These represent court judgments , actual dollar amounts . That is verifiable information . And I think that Lombardi himself realized that not everything could be verified . So I think what you have instead is names . We know about connections of names . Exactly what is that connection is hard to characterize . So that is a line with an arrow in one direction , or an arrow in two directions . So it 's really the abstract component of the work of art . It 's what can be represented , and – really – what can not be represented . " For instance , his 1999 drawing " George W. Bush , Harken Energy , and Jackson Stephens , ca 1979 – 90 " shows alleged connections between James Bath , the Bush and bin Laden families , and business deals in Texas and around the world . Following Lombardi 's suicide in 2000 , the book '' Mark Lombardi : Global Networks '' was written in conjunction with a traveling exhibit . The editors chose to incorporate into the cover artwork ( see image at right ) a detail from " George W. Bush , Harken Energy , and Jackson Stephens , ca 1979 – 90 " , showing George W. Bush ( on the back cover of the book ) and Osama bin Laden ( in the upper left of the front cover ) separated by one step from each other in the network , via Bath ; the same connection between Bush and bin Laden was also highlighted in a 2003 '' Boston Globe '' article that described the FBIs interest in Lombardi 's works immediately following the September 11 attacks of 2001
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