September 11 Digital Archive, User-Generated Art

This piece is called "Requiem" and is an 11 foot by 4 foot hand painted silk banner that hangs in the Chapel of the National Episcopal Church Center in mid-town Manhattan. The following poem accompanies the banner.

The Rev. Eliza Linley

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The image I am submitting is a painting that I did after 911. The idea came to me in part from a photo I had seen on TV and in part from an idea my son gave me along with a plea to create something so we would never forget. The image of the statue…

Below is the original text of an email sent to me by a friend on Sept. 25th, 2001. I included it in reference to the image.

This was sent to me by a friend of mine. I guess it was drawn by a child in PA. who is 12! Perhaps there is hope after…

LE PONT

Lenfant dune obscurité immense
Affamé/ assoiffé
Scrute sur un pont
Le portes qui se forment…

Une foule de gens
Qui se cachent des lendemains
Avec des pensées sans excuses
Enlacés les uns aux autres
Veulent passer…
Devant le soleil……

After many months of critical thinking, sketching, and conceptualizing, I came up with this idea for the new World Trade Center.
There are two sets of twins: the taller, perhaps 90 or 100 floors tall, along Church Street; the shorter, 60 or 70…

This is one of my early proposal drawings for a new World Trade Center complex: twin towers like the first, but radically different in form from the sleek, pure Modernism of the original towers--and several floors taller. The "spiral" form steps…

This ink is titled "Frozen." It has taken over a year for me to be able to examine the 9-11 tragedy in the detail required for expression that is as involved as this. I wonder if other artists and writers are discovering the same thing? Horror of…

I created this piece to remember. It is called "Fallen".

This drawing was from memory, so isn't technically accurate. Visually, it is.

The title is a brief poem:

For a week time stood still
Then it began moving again
There are two worlds
Before 09-11-2001
And after...

Like two tombstones
The Twin Towers…

The image I'm submitting is a collage I dedicated to Carole La Plante , afriend who perished in 9-11. It's a collage consisting of my original art & patriotic images.

A flier from the National Poetry Month @ The Writer's Voice of the West Side Y -- special event, After 9/11, featuring the poetry of Joan Murray.

This image is a composite of two drawings I made years ago, one when I was in my teens, and the other during my early years in college. The vehicles are space ships, but in the realm of literature, a starship pretty much serves as an analogy for a…

This is one of many photos that i took on that day.
It is a photo of Staten Islands Rescue Co.5.
Twenty minutes after taking this photo the south tower collapsed killing all eleven firefighters on board.
They are true heroes and may GOD love…

poster created 9/11 in the afternoon when I was able to make it home from work. we were the first floor evacuated from the John Hancock Tower in Boston the morning of 9/11.

This is an oil painting I created within the month after 911. It is called Isle of Prayers as I feel that is what Manhattan became. The Virgen of Guadalupe cries a tear of blood for all people. My heart goes out to everyone effected by this tragedy…

This drawing is titled "Moving Forward," and looks at my gradual progress of recovery, which is like moving through a new tunnel not quite knowing what's on the other side, but the end looks brighter, more hopeful. The mirror reflects upon the past.

This picture is done by Alanna (age 13). It's called "I hold in my hand the unity of man". It won 3rd place in a Reflections contest.

This is a plaster sculpture created by a group of junior high students near Columbus, Ohio. They spent 5 months working on it to convey their deep sorrow. They chose this pose after seeing many images on television of the New York skyline that…

I felt the emotion as he spoke, his voice slightly quivered as he tried to maintain composure, and I saw the pain reflected on his teary eyes. He was the voice of this Nation, conveying the Pride, Courage and Honor of our people. With a profound…

Banners from around the country hanging in the Pentagon Hallways