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9/11
Family Members, Friends, and Survivors Invited to Special
Event
Sunday, April
1, 2007
Private Painting and
Healing Event as part of Garden in Transit Program
Time: 12pm to
3pm
Location: 149 W. 32nd St. (b/w 6th and 7th
aves.)
Website: http://www.portraitsofhope.org/
RSVP (yes
only): Melanie@portraitsofhope.org
Highlights will include a
silent art auction, refreshments, and live entertainment.
Garden in Transit is an
incredible new project by the nonprofit organization Portraits
of Hope. Merging the best of healing arts with public art,
thousands of participants at hospitals, schools, and community
institutions will paint vibrant flowers symbolizing life,
beauty, hope, joy, inspiration, and healing on weatherproof
panels that will be installed on the rooftops, hoods, and
trunks of New York’s iconic yellow cab creating a magnificent
"garden in transit" for the NYC metered taxi's centennial in
Fall 2007.
The project will create a massive
beautification and visual rebirth of New York’s Cityscape.
This new life has a unique meaning for those whose lives were
touched most closely by the tragic events at the World Trade
Center. We invite 9/11 survivors and the families and friends
of victims to come and paint at a private healing event at our
studio.
A special stamp will distinguish the artwork
of honorees at this event in recognition of their special role
in the Garden in Transit project.
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This week we are proud to feature a wonderful
memorial at Windsor, Connecticut High School dedicated to the
memory of "every person who lost their life on 9/11." This
uniquely beautiful memorial is the product of dedicated work
from the Windsor students, teachers, and a local artist. The
page explains the origin of the memorial project as well as
the creative and heartfelt way in which every life lost on
9/11 is individually commemorated in the 
"Mr. Pelton joined the bottoms of two discarded oil
drums to create a thin cylinder. He then cut out the images of
the Twin Towers. Once the cylinder was complete, the students
drilled a hole for each person who died in the attack, reading
the name of each victim as they drilled. Mr. Pelton installed
lights in between the two oil drums, as well as night sensors
for the lights. The memorial sculpture was placed in the
courtyard of Windsor High and is entitled “To Those Who Were”.
At the foot of the sculpture is a plaque entitled “Embrace”,
designed by Patrick Daly, a Windsor High School senior art
student. During the day, sunlight streams through the cutout
to cast a shadow of the Twin Towers on the ground and at night
the light glows through the holes as if the World Trade Center
were surrounded by stars.