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September 11th, 2006
Dedicated to the memory of those who died on September 11th, 2001.
I created this image in Lansing, Michigan, on the fifth anniversary of 9/11. I was speaking to the Michigan Triangle Professional Photographers Association. Outside the hotel there was a memorial tribute to all those that died on 9/11 and in honor of all the rescue workers who gave their lives.
From this photograph I made the following painting:
As I took a break in the afternoon, after having made this painting, I was told by a member of the audience to go and take a close look at the metal object in the park in front of the hotel where the earlier memorial ceremony had taken place. He told me it was a fragment from the Twin Towers. From a far the metal fragment looked like a modern day Rodin, monumental in every way. I had assumed the object was a man-made sculpture and hadn't realized it was debris from the 9/11 attack.
As I approached the metal I was shocked by the raw violence and force described in its twisted and jagged forms, and the searing signs of an unimaginable inferno that had incinerated the melted, pock-marked, peeling surface. To see such a strong, thick, solid piece of steel, rising into the air, deformed as if it had been reduced to putty in a childs hands, was incredibly moving. I have never experienced a piece of material that embodied so much emotion.
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These photographs, showing the stark, dramatic forms, the screaming silhouette and the torn textures, testaments to the forces that had been unleashed as the towers collapsed, were collaged into the painting to create the final artwork, a 38" wide by 65" high mixed media artwork on canvas, "Remembrance".
All artwork shown is copyright © Jeremy Sutton
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