September, 2001 (detail)
©2003-2004, Michael O'Rourke

Embedded in the mural wall, pre-recorded video of a pond, with fish occasionally seen swimming through it.   The fish appear rarely enough that the image appears to be a still image - until a fish passes through the frame.  The slow pace of this imagery is in contrast to the devastation of the events depicted immediately to the right. The fish are oblivious to the devastation.  From the point of view of Nature, all of this is normal – the fish, the smoke, the death, the life. The video of the fish fuses with the drawings and colors of the mural imagery.

(A personal note: when I arrived home the afternoon of the event, the plants of this fish pond in my backyard were covered with a layer of ash from the burning Trade Towers.)

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