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- Title: New York's Spontaneous 9/11 Memorials and the Politics of Ambivalence (Special ISSUE: AMBIVALENT Architectures) (Essay)
- Author : Borderlands
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 382 KB
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Perfectly opposed in scale, the temporary memorials that materialized throughout New York in the weeks that followed September 11 offered a visual counterpoint to the massive destruction at Ground Zero. Appearing almost immediately after the attacks, these modest memorials were the first additions to New York's changed topography (1) and, as media playback of the collapsing towers waned, the next iconic images to circulate on television screens and in the pages of newspapers. In Washington Square and Tompkins Square, at the Brooklyn Heights Promenade overlooking Lower Manhattan, at the multiple fire stations around the city, gatherings of votive candles, poems, banners, flowers and keepsakes formed in similarly chaotic arrangements. The sight of battered placards reading 'We Will Never Forget', baseball hats, family snapshots of the missing and wilted bouquets clinging to metal railings and wired fences was no less powerful for being frequent. Perhaps the most prominent of the temporary memorial sites was also one of the shortest lived. Located just north of the Fourteenth Street police cordon and the closest accessible public space to the World Trade Center site, Union Square became a natural gathering point for those attempting to locate lost family members, for people in search of information regarding the still developing state of emergency and for many who simply wished to be in the presence of others in the days following the attacks (Kimmelman 2001). Documentation of this brief but important occurrence is now distributed across hundreds of amateur photography websites and Flickr photostreams. In this dispersed digital archive we can still see crowds of people gathered day and night around the aggregation of candles, flowers and American flags that spread out to surround the park's statuary and lamp poles. Specific objects stand out from the colourful background of melted wax: a child's painting of two towers embracing, a cardboard sign that reads 'Killing More Will Not Honor', a pair of shoes still in their box. These and thousands of other individual contributions combined to transform Union Square into something unplanned and unrehearsed--a place for grieving, but also a place for discussion.
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