Do you ever feel like you were supposed to do something…here is the story behind this picture. It was the summer of 2001. As I walked behind the back of my uncle’s truck, a couple of bricks caught my eye. They were unusually long and broad and had a texture that I just had to capture. I grabbed some vellum and took a rubbing of each brick, then tucked them away for something…
To be honest, I did not even know what the World Trade Center was until we all watched on that September 11th day. I knew then, what those rubbings were meant for. My dad mentioned, “You should look up all the verses in the Bible…chapter 9, verse 11. So I did, starting with Genesis, until I came upon Ecclesiastes 9:11…”I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. Moreover, no man knows when his hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so men are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.” (NIV)
President Bush addressed our nation with the 23rd Psalm. It’s words rang true “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.” (NIV)
Upon completion of this picture, I learned that the director of our local art center was headed to New York. I asked if he would bring this print to the site and place it somewhere. They ended up presenting it to a couple of firemen at one of the New York City fire departments.
My hope was to create a picture depicting the bright blue sky of that September 11th day that was suddenly interrupted by the planes crashing into the two towers. How the skyline changed forever as the buildings fell into the silhouette of the city. To remember those that we loved and lost, that they will always be with us. How as Americans we have hope to keep moving forward knowing that our Lord and Savior is with us…In God We Trust.