A Fragment of a Tragedy - I stumble upon this twisted I-beam while rushing across the parking lot to a classical concert at the Mesquite Arts Center. The realization of what I was looking at stopping me in my tracks. Suddenly my head was filled with the terrible news footage of the Twin Towers collapsing….

An estimated 2,600 people died that day in the Twin Towers. When so many people parish at one time at one location, what happens to all the vitality contained in those human bodies? Does it shoot off into the universe? Does it saturate the physical material surrounding the event? Are these fragments of the Twin Towers imbued with their life force?

Of the estimated 200,000 tons of steel that collapsed to the ground, 7,000 tons was moved to the John F. Kennedy Airport for storage and research. From this, 2,200 chunks of steel have been distributed to 1,800 government and nonprofit organizations as memorial artifacts. The remaining 130,000 tons was scrapped, recycled into new buildings, cars, refrigerators, soup cans…

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