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On 9/11 at 9:20 A.M.,my room mate woke me up screaming: "The World Trade Center is on fire" There was no image on the TV screen. I run up the roof, I live directly across the rive on the Brooklyn site, I could see the buildings on fire...I had no…

The title of this painting is " SECOND TRAGEDY,2000 YEARS LATER. it depicts the first tragedy to be the death of Christ on the cross, and the second tragedy, 2000 years later, the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, where 3,000 innocent…

This is a poem I have written for the events of 9/11, and also a painting that I have done on that day while the events were taken place.

Just ten days before the attack an exhibition of my work titled "Wounds " had opened at the Johnson and Johnson Gallery in New Brunswick.These pieces like most of my work are evocative and less than literal.However in the days immediately after the…

Artists have always been a mirror of the cultures in which they live, and through their work, they express society's pain, yearnings and triumphs. As we try to come to grips with the unspeakable horror of the terrorists attacks of September Eleventh,…

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…

Title: "September Ascension" by Mario Pocoroba
This image is a 6.5"x 7.5" marker and pencil study of a much larger (48"x 48") oil painting-sculpture which is currently in progress and will be completed by the first anniversary, 9/11/2002. On the…

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…

A simple panel from my webcomic "Spare Change" that ran September 12. Drawn late night September 11.

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…

I thought that Maxine said it well. New York Stand Proud. We all support you.

In December 2001, I read this poem. It touched me so deeply that I felt compelled to recreate it into a graphic depiction. It represented how I believe people must have been feeling: Lost ... and Found. This poem gave me comfort and belief that…

As an artist, this is my contribution to the 9/11 first anniversary. As we are all still asking the questions a year later; why it happent? how we as a Nation could have prevented it of happening? How can we prevent it of happen again in the future?…

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

This is a drawing that according to the Commanding Officer of the Navy Command I was mobilized to was drawn by a high school student in Ohio in the Fall of 2001. Unfortunately, I don't have the name of the artist so they can get credit for it. It…