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"On
the ground it was
never so obvious
to me how large
the Empire State
Building really
is-there's always
other tall
buildings between
me and it-but my
studio windows in
the North Tower of
the WTC looked
straight into the
windows of that
building from a
distance of more
than fifty blocks.
Looking down on
the city, which
was dwarfed from
so high up, I had
a view that was
strangely
dichotomous: A
closeness to the
sky or "heavens"
was coupled with a
view down onto the
city that made the
goings on below
appear tiny and
frantic. Thus the
title of the
series of photos I
ended up making: Heaven
or Hell.
There was a dialog
between the Twin
Towers and the
Empire State
Building that was
really obvious
from the higher
floors of these
buildings. The
three structures
stood alone above
the city. I found
myself
constructing the
Twin Towers and
the Empire State
Building out of
sugar and making
landscape
"portraits" in
which the three
buildings acted
out some sort of
triangular
relationship."
-Susan Graham from
Site Matters: The
Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council's
World Trade Center
Artists Residency,
1997-2001, published
2004
In the summer of 2000,
I was awarded a
residency at Lower
Manhattan Cultural
Council's (LMCC) Worldviews
studios,
on the 91st floor of
World Trade Center
1. The
residency lasted May
through September, and
during my time there, I
made these works. After
2001, these pieces no
longer reflected my
original intentions, and
the content seemed much
darker. Because of that,
they have not been
shown. I recently talked
about the residency and
that work for the first
time during a lecture in
2012, and I finally
decided to add the
pieces I made while in
the North Tower to my
web site. For more
information about the
book click HERE
and about the Worldviews
Residency, please visit
the LMCC web site:
http://www.lmcc.net/residencies/workspace/past_sessions/world_views
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