This painting, “We Are Different Now Forever - Memorial for 9/11” is of a calla lily in dark blue
space as a stylized image tilting inside a bleak,
black square with all the terror of Ground Zero
being in some way now singularly transformed
into an organic form symbolizing recovery and
flanked by two outside towers burning and two
blue memorial shafts of light.  This symbol is a
memorial to the life force within all Americans.
Several smaller wall scrolls contributed to the
evolving project.  For example, from the initial
photograph of lilies in the back of a destroyed
car under ashes, drawings emerged taken from
my journals, newspapers, as I, too, dealt with a
mountainous wave of grief for New York.  I
remember Emily Dickinson said long before the
World Trade Center fell destroyed in flames---
“We’d never know how high we are ‘til we are
called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
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