This article was published with my picture "Remembering" in the Memorial Edition of the Risk Magazine, September 2002. It was chosen from 400 Artists submitting work for this special edition of the Magazine.
My mother, Mary Regensburg Feist, a lifelong New Yorker already deep in her 80s at the time, was profoundly affected by the calamitous events of 9/11. As an artist, she expressed her feelings in paint--resulting in five powerful works of art.
Although I live in California now I'm a NY born and bred (Manhattan) fine artist. I lived in Tribeca for 14 plus years since graduating college and graduate school.
Artistically, the idea is to transform the scene into a new 'structure'. It is part of a study of how you would see the world without a traditional horizon being horizontal.
The tragedy of September 11 made a strong mark in the lives of all the people of this country, it could be said that it has imprinted strongly for many and for others not as much.
This is an original poem which I wrote while deployed with the Army Reserve on September 11, 2006 at Camp Navistar in Kuwait, just steps away from the border of Iraq.
I was only 6 years old when 9/11 happened. I rememeber everything as if it was yesterday. september 11 changed my life for ever, for the first time i noticed evil in the real world.
"Never Forget," is the title of my painting, an 18 x 21 oil on hardboard. The image of the firefighter was an actual photo of one of the firefighters on the scene on that ill-fated day.
The "Survivor Tree", a Callery pear tree, was planted on the original World Trade Center plaza in the 1970s. After 9/11 workers found the damaged tree in the wreckage, reduced to an eight foot stump.
