The only thing I'm going to say about 9/11

[nex0s]

Is about art.

Julian Laverdier's Towers of Light was hailed by a lot of people as a gorgeous memorial, ethereal, and beautiful

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[midnightstation]

What I find interestinf is that the pagentry and memorials of the 3rd Reich has it's history in Roman design and influence. The columns of light in the "Cathedral of Light" remind me very much or roman arhcitecture but placed in a more Greek Pantheon of Gods with the stars

[irisjaye]

Very interesting. The only article I remember reading by about the artists said something about representing the ghosts of the towers. We saw them last night while walking over the Brooklyn Bridge and and I felt about them last night the way I felt about them when they were first put up -- they heal the hole in the sky.

When they originally went on, we were on the Brooklyn Promenade and when the switch went on it only looked like one beam of light from our angle. A woman in front of us in the crowd yelled out "That ain't no two beams of light! Brooklyn only gets one beam of light? What the fuck is that?" After a month of candles and flowers and people singing kumbaya on the promenade, it was a relief to be back to normal. So yeah, art is really personal.

[la_directora]

We saw them last night while walking over the Brooklyn Bridge and and I felt about them last night the way I felt about them when they were first put up -- they heal the hole in the sky.

I saw them while waiting for a bus in Park Slope, and had almost exactly that same thought. I think it's such a lovely type of memorial. I actually kind of like the sense of impermanence it has, too. It seems more moving than something in marble or stone.

"That ain't no two beams of light! Brooklyn only gets one beam of light? What the fuck is that?"

That is officially the first thing in any way related to 9/11 that has made me laugh. :)