9/11 Quilt Project

The September 11 Quilts is a memorial project which is open to everyone, and has enabled me along with numerous others to process their feelings about the 9/11 events. I chose to depict the towers because I wanted to honor the victims of the tragedies and because they were also a part of my day-to-day life; I often passed through the WTC to use the Path and NYC subway system. The caption in the banner "Connais-tu le pays?" is a reference to an aria from the opera Mignon by Thomas. In it an individual expresses feelings for their homeland, describing its various attributes and the affection they feel for it. This is analogous to my feelings for the New York area which is my home and the place I was born.

I wanted to keep my approach to this project personal, and was careful to omit all nationalistic references to any particular country, including my own. I regard these events to be world events, not occurances that merely affected the United States.

To appreciate the full impact of these events, I believe it is necessary for Americans to consider the role of their country as it interacts with the rest of the world. To do any less creates a circumscribed and unrealistic perception with regards to its global significance.

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