https://911digitalarchive.org/files/original/c3905f1f777430103eef14b1532e0fda.jpg f890daefecca1c246c463bc2a373577f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 15th Anniversary Collection Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. How has your life changed because of what happened on September 11, 2001? form question WE ARE DIFFERENT FOREVER Remembering 9/11: New York City Life is about choices. “How can I resolve this mountainous wave of grief -- we were all interconnected,” I asked. I questioned how I could use my art to respond to our sense of futility following 9/11. I culled the hoard of newspapers. In one photo of a battered car filled with ashes -- there springing from it -- were lilies that lived through the ordeal. Plants from inside a delivery truck crushed above the detritus were flowers! It triggered my inner life force to go back through my journals and make sketches to uncover my energy in germinating stages like compost (under those newspaper layers) as I redistributed the layers of paper like a grieving woman with a shovel in hand like many mothers and daughters. At that point unconsciously as an artist, I chose between life and death. We were paralyzed. “I don’t think the country will ever get over that,” I told friends. But ultimately, I realized that we still had the freedom to make that choice. This poem recalls the creative, unconscious process: Germination ... is the warmth of cover, protecting sleep, in measureless quantities of days - of sunrises,  of phantom images crossing the mind ... in sleep, in time, remote from business, uncluttered by things, not filled by talking, or by laughter, or bells, colorful memories or priorities or anything similar to purposeful knowing after the mold has been set ... Where Nature grew abundantly, I picked lilies --- in the fog and sat before the ocean with them in my lap. I was inspired to create the Calla pastel 18” x12” sketching the rhythmically flowing Calyx of the lily pushing against the frame. I called it the life force and turned it to fill the canvas, push against the frame -- and release from it visually -- as a flowing whorl of rising, curving energy. The idea to have the two stripes conjure up the memory of the twin towers was developed step by step from the view New Yorkers looked up at the WTC towers burning and later the two memorial shafts of blue light in the night sky. The painting was scanned onto the Duratrans film, sandwiched between two layers of Plexiglas, placed into a light box 36 x 60 inches, as I experimented on how the memorial painting could grow illuminated from within. An acrylic painting 5 ft h. x 8 ft. w. and Memorial on canvas proceeded from that; it was hung at Suffolk County Center, in Riverhead, NY in 2006. In transitioning from one step to the next, the transforming power of grief enabled me to come to peace of mind with the honor roll of the World Trade Center victims in the newspapers during the months it took from the 9/11 event through completion. By the spring of 2002, I completed the large painting outside my studio on Ponquogue Ave, in Hampton Bays, NY. I am someone who lived 100 miles from this national catastrophe, but for the week following each morning I wiped fine dust and ashes from my car. --Mym Tuma, MA How will you remember the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks? form question Every year I have shown the Memorial lightbox in various public buildings, including the Southampton Town Hall, the Brookhaven Town Hall, and it has been written about in the East End papers, for example, this was several years ago: The Independent, East Hampton, NY published this: “An unusual memorial exhibition to 9/11 was on view at the Madelle H. Semerjian Gallery, Southampton Memorial Library, "We Are Different Forever," exploring what Southampton artist Mym Tuma hopes will "console after tragedy" and remind viewers of the triumph of creativity over despair. Prompted and inspired after the 9/11 tragedy by seeing a photo of lilies sprouting incongruously from a battered car filled with ashes," she began to sketch designs for pastel paintings and sculpture that would embody the sense that the radiant energy of the natural world is never lost. The results: a light box and flower paintings that emphasize symbols of renewal, are meant to suggest that, "we are all connected." Note: During the fifth Anniversary of 9/11 the larger 5 ft. by 8 ft.acrylic painting hung at the Riverhead County Center (NY) through the gracious help of Penny LaValle, Assessors office. Referred to by Where did you hear about the website? Through the Smithsonian Memorial Archives checking for the proper procedure for donating items to the collection. Please note that I have other files of the image if you would like to see them. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource A Way To Remember 9/11: New York City 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.” © 2002 by Mym Tuma. All Rights Reserved. P.O. Box 549, Southampton, NY 11969 For information call 631-878-0287 Title A name given to the resource A Way To Remember 9-11 [Lightbox]: NYC