World Trade Center Plaza

At 9:58 am on September 11, 2001, the shadow cast by the South Tower of the World Trade Center, fixed itself forever to the earth in the very second it was obliterated by the collapse. In the split second that the shadow fell and was lifted, the built and un-built worlds of New York coalesced.  Our project documents the meta-sphere of time, stopped. It begins with the dialogue between the Twin Tower Footprints, which remain untouched – in Black and White.
The White Footprint is all that is living, active, and elemental in its force.  It is ice-white, graced by the waterfall and fire-annealed. The Black Footprint is contemplative. It is the repository of what was lost in destruction. 3016 Eternal Flames at its center carry on what was halted in the spirits and in the minds of the victims, known and unknown, and call us to consider.  It is the island of departed souls.
The Shadow joins the two Footprints, tracing the filaments of the base of the old World Trade Center directly into the bedrock of Manhattan. The hand-less Clock has a Pendulum that swings, marking no other time than this. Flags fly for the 92 countries bound by the singular moment that took these lives. 3016 Flames are reflected in the pool of the black footprint visible from the glazed pedestrian connector below grade. The Boulders are benches marking where debris fell like random meteors and scattered onto the bedrock, so that one might sit here and consider the lives that ended randomly, scattering dreams. The Names of the victims are inscribed in a rough granite wall not far from the boulders, linking the reality of their finite journey with the one that will release them over time.

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