Art and World Events Reactions

Tragedies are very hurtful. Its a time that society mourns for the events that had just taken people lives. On September 11, 2001 tragedy made history. I remember being in class when parents started to pick up their children but I was unsure why. About twenty minutes later it was announced that one of the twin towers was hit a fewer minutes later we found out that the second tower was hit. The first person that I thought of was my cousin Christopher who had worked there was on his way to work when he founded out what had happen.

"Untitled (Questions)" was one of the art works that stood out to me at the MoMA PS 1. This art work caught my attention by the colors. It has a bunch of questions that even 10 years later many people are still asking questions like why? What could we have done differently? How will we move on from this? A second art work that I felt a connection to was "Silent Callinal" by JM by looking at the black plastic bags to me it represents the amount of bodies that were never found. It also represents the emptiness that each of the victims family felt.

"The Forty Part Motet" by Janet Cardiff was a group of 40 different people. I thought it was amazing because with 40 different voices together they sound as one voice. To me it represented the unity of America on that day. Listening to each voice you hear their struggle of coming to terms with what happen.

September 11, 2001 is a day that America will never forget. The people that lost their lives on this day will never be forgotten. 10 years later we are still being affected by it i.e. financial crisis in 2008, the war in Iraq, Health Now for the helpers of Sept. 11 and even the way we travel.