The Twin Towers Live On

Leona M Seufert is a digital artist using Photoshop to create collages that tell a story. Our current exhibit has the 6 she did around the theme of 9/11 fading from memory. For every 9/11 she writes poems and does research to write essays that talk about the year just passed and what has happened at Ground Zero. This year she was very disappointed to discover that her research turned up only one item: the rebuilding of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church being completed. She felt that 9/11, that horrible day 22 years ago, was fading from our memories and thus proceeded to create her series “When Memories Fade Away.” She used images of what was at Ground Zero prior to the fall of the Towers and superimposed that upon abstract images of the Twin Towers. You will notice she “faded away” those images, as being out of focus to emphasizes the fact that we no longer see clearly that past time. View our current virtual exhibit to see all 6 of these stunning images
Visit her website to view other digital collage series she’s created.
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To see the history of the last 22 years since 9/11 and the rebuilding of ground Zero, visit her World Trade Center Journal website.
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Leona Seufert studio-l@att.net
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We Must Never Forget 9/11

                  Leona Seufert’s Online Journal Helps Us To Never Forget 9/11
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Leona M Seufert, our current exhibit’s artist, lost no one on 9/11 but still she grieved the unbelievable loss of lives and of one of her favorite NYC locations. The World Trade Center had been a part of her life for many years when she worked in lower Manhattan. In the space of one day it was gone. Construction sites demolish whole neighborhoods but that is a slowly evolving process. The World Trade Center with its Twin Towers (which took years to build) vanished within 24 hours.
In order to cope with her grief over such a loss, she started writing poems about 9/11. Then, 21 years before blogs arose, she created an online journal of these writings. The World Trade Center Journal is a continuing memorial to not only what happened in 2001 but also documents all the difficult and transformative years afterwards. She wrote about how the Pile turned into the Pit, the 9/11 Memorial contest with its controversies, and the ensuing years of rebuilding this many acre site. And each year she also wrote and posted her emotional poems along with relevant photographs.
During the first year Seufert posted multiple times a week. As the years marched on, news items diminished and now she posts only around the time of the anniversary each year. Some years had controversies, some years advancement in the site’s development, others she had to look hard to find that year’s topics. This year, as our current exhibit shows the Ukrainian war’s terrible images of destruction inspired not only our exhibit but also her poetry. Visit her World Trade Center Journal and scroll through the 21 years of postings. It will be like a trip through time, a trip she took and continues to take, so that as the years pass we may never forget that horrible day.