"STAIRWAY TO DEDICATION, IN HONOR OF THOSE WHO PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE FOR US DAILY", The firemen were going up the stairs as the people were running out at WTC.
I took my first trip to "ground zero" this year and was very moved by the experience. Having watched that horrible day unfold on TV and then finally coming to New York and standing where it all happened was just very powerful.
We visited the national 911 Memorial in late June 2012, and the experience moved me in a very special way. The result is my poem, Forever Upright and Skyward.
I was on the A train, riding uptown that fateful morning. I never intended to be a writer or indeed, to place my memories from that September day on the page, but I found myself turning to the literary arts in the years that followed to find heal
I was on the A train, riding uptown that fateful morning. I never intended to be a writer or indeed, to place my memories from that September day on the page, but I found myself turning to the literary arts in the years that followed to find heal
I did an art lesson with my students on Rene Magritte, the Surrealist Artist. We were inspired by his work, The False Mirror, to created an image of our own framed by the shape of an eye.
I focus on time, memory and nature. My work concerns the ways people collect, preserve and remember the quotidian aspects of life as well as life changing events.
The Witness series brings to bear my thirty-year painting practice to what I saw from my home on September 11. It is conceived as an elegy to the lives lost and altered that day.
The destruction of the towers turned a page in history.
The courage and perseverance of firefighters brought a new meaning to the word hero.
This painting is dedicated to the heroism of all firefighters.
Through exploration of color and its effects on the mind, as well as experimentation in mixed media, Ryan Stroup has created a mélange of works which include paintings, ceramics, and sculptures.
I wrote this poem after reading an article in NEWSWEEK about the kids from P.S. 234 and Stuyvesant High School, schools near enough to Ground Zero that the children could see the conflagration.
