Seen from Above - 2002
In 1998, I applied to the World Views program which had just been started by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to allow artists to work for six months on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center for six months. At the time I had recently arrived in New York and had been struck by the view from Windows On the World, the bar at the top of tower 1, and wanted to see this view while painting the large still lives I had started in France.
The view was so powerfully present that it drove me to a new body of work based on the dimension and view from its iconic thin vertical windows. Work which I developed and showed over the next two years. In particular a group show in a 16th century chapel in the south of France, at which I imagined a much larger representation. [link or image – chapelle des penitents].
This vision led to a project I wanted to propose to the Port Authority, but before I could propose it, 9/11 happened.
In 1998, I applied to the World Views program which had just been started by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to allow artists to work for six months on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center for six months. At the time I had recently arrived in New York and had been struck by the view from Windows On the World, the bar at the top of tower 1, and wanted to see this view while painting the large still lives I had started in France [link to work].
The view was so powerfully present that it drove me to a new body of work based on the dimension and view from its iconic thin vertical windows. Work which I developed and showed over the next two years. In particular a group show in a 16th century chapel in the south of France, at which I imagined a much larger representation. [link or image – chapelle des penitents].
This vision led to a project I worked during the summer of 2001 and planned to present to the Port Authority in September.
Then 9/11 happened.