In this image collection, I was obviously trying to represent how I felt about 9/11. It was my first image collection that drew quite a bit of attention and ellicited a lot of feedback. The poem was central to the ideas of the images and, though it's not my best by far, I'm proud of the way they complement each other.

For many of the images, I used visual signifiers such as the shape of the WTC towers, a military graveyard, a plane nosediving into a decayed Capitol building. There are also figures in many of the images, most strikingly the crowd of red which was really meant to imply the memory of the thousands that died on that terrible day.

For technique, I used many layers often overlapping and duplicating and then using a motion blur (which I think scaled back the opacity so the image is just sort of fuzzy). I tried to stick to a palette of red, white and blue wherever possible, often quite de-saturated to show that this is a very bleak rendering of a very bleak day.

I am quite proud of the images I made for this collection because it was an attempt to do something very different. Tieing it in with the poem is something I'm proud of. Although I'm still shocked and horrified at the events of that day, I feel like I have shed some of the weight I've carried in the years since 2001.

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