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| The team of designers responsible for the Tribute in Light conceived the project as a temporary installation of twin beacons of light emanating from lower Manhattan as a memorial to the victims, an acknowledgement of the efforts of the city's rescue workers, and a source of hope and strength to all New Yorkers. The project was realized on March 11, 2002, and the Tribute in Light illuminated the night sky for the following month. | ||||||||||||||
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by Ellsworth Kelly |
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| The seemingly simply imposition of a green space into an aerial photograph of the site represents artist Ellsworth Kelly's call for a direct spiritual connection to the events of September 11. Rather than filling the site with the distracting effects of new construction, and the processes behind its selection, this collage suggests that the more appropriate response to overwhelming tragedy is silence. Published in the New York Times, August 31, 2003. | ||||||||||||||
| source: Imagining Ground Zero: Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site, by Suzanne Stephens with Ian Luna and Ron Broadhurst. Architectural Record / Rizzoli, 2004. | ||||||||||||||