List of Cultural References To The September 11 Attacks - Art and Design

Art and Design

• A Garden Stepping into the Sky (2002-3) by Ron Drummond is a design for a World Trade Center Memorial built out of the "clay" of functional interior space suitable for commercial, cultural, or residential uses. Praised by New York novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany and architecture critic Herbert Muschamp, Drummond's design was the focus of a documentary by the award-winning independent filmmaker Gregg Lachow and was featured on CNN and KOMO-TV News.
• 9/11 Flipbook (2005–present) by Scott Blake allows viewers to watch a continuous reenactment of United Airlines Flight 175 crashing into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. Accompanying the images are essays written by a wide range of participants, each expressing their personal experience of the September 11th attacks. In addition, the authors of the essays were asked to reflect on, and respond to, the flipbook itself.
• A painting by Brian Whelan entitled "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" is used as a metaphor to depict the 9/11 tragedy.
• Moroccan artist Mounir Fatmi produced a series of works named Save Manhattan. Three Installations show Manhattan as if the attacks did not take place, and a light is projected to create a sharply defined shadow of the pre-9/11 skyline of the city. Save Manhattan 1 is made with books, Save Manhattan with videotapes and Save Manhattan 3 is a sound installation with speakers. In the Save Manhattan Video, the skyline progressively dissolves iskyline progressively and becomes the memory and the ghost of something that was but that is not anymore.
• A New York based Polish artist Leokadia Makarska-Cermak, who was in Lower Manhattan on 9/11, completed her Golden Angels Over Lower Manhattan painting in 2011 and presented it at the Sanctuary Still remembrance event held at the St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church on September 11, 2011.