Both this and Morgan Stanley 617 were small scale drawings that came out of a few visits to the visitor's gallery of the Chicago Board of Trade.  I had hoped that I might be able to capture a trader or (better yet) traders abstracted from their immediate environment into an experience of  computer screens or telephones.  They obliged, of course. There were examples of the wild gesticulating one expects (cliche) as well as scenes of epic boredom. The boredom, its own form of abstraction, eventually began to interest me more than the frenzy.  Here I was trying to juxtapose a bit of both. The zig-zag of the partition and the stacked heads was the main reason I chose this scene.

This is a very small piece; nevertheless, I had hoped to use much larger stippling dots - similar in scale to what I had been using in my oversize work at the time.  Instead, I wound up using dots of all sizes so as to capture little details like the phone cord.  I think the jumble of different sizes created a bit more chaotic feel.  In a drawing with the word "Emergency" in the title maybe this wasn't the worst thing.