9/11 Memorial

The whole area was smaller than I had imagined. It is still a large building site. A big tall glassy tower is being constructed that is suppose to be the 'new' WTC equivalent. South Pool. Large. The water was mesmerising. Fire. Water. Thousands and thousands of running beads of light----glassy, cascading golden crystal  beads running towards a flat spreading pond of moving water---water slowly pouring into a large, black VOID. This large hole is like a permanent dug grave, open, waiting- it's cold open mouth gaping. The POWER of this BIG BLACK SQUARE HOLE came from it's hollowness- it's dark absence draining life from the liveness around it. What intrigued me was the contrast between the hurtling liveness and the black lifelessness of the draining void. This black void left me with a quiet unease. I am puzzled and disturbed by it's power. I wonder how deep this space is and why it is a memorial. Perhaps it is fitting how this void commemorates both the dead and the missing- the absence of life that once was and how life in this city will forever be marked by an empty space and how, for some people, this void could and would never be filled.

Photo taken on 23rd January 2013, 9/11 Memorial.