"View of the Fall"
Oil & Acrylic on
Canvas, 24"h x 48"w, 2001
Corporate Collection
of
Nazaire & Company, Inc.
New York, NY
This
image was completed after the wake of the September 11th tragedy. It is dedicated to the spirits whose contact with
their bodies was severed, in the moment the World Trade Center Twin Towers collapsed
around them. The dark figures on the lower
right side of the painting suggests the form of their souls, a united group, witnessing
time unfolding its dramatic change.
The ocean-like wave, also on the right, depicts a fragment of a dream I had just days
before September 11, where a great tsunami wave overtook a tall building. But the menace wave could not prevail.
It is my view that peace is eternal, even in the face of chaos and destruction.
Although violence has enormous impact on our bodies, the human spirit is unassailable.
