This was what I saw in Hoboken, New Jersey on September 14, the Friday after the attack. There was a candlelight vigil on Pier A beginning at 6. As my family and I arrived, we saw hundreds of people assembled. I also saw the US navy hospital ship Comfort coming up the Hudson River. At the time it was supposed that there still might be survivors to rescue from the building collapse.
It took me a long time to arrange this composition to balance the three elements of people, skyline and ship. Some of the people included weren't
actually there that night, but I have included them because they were significant in various ways to the Hoboken 9/11 community.
The main figure is Sandy Carey who was actually at the Armory that night, looking for news of her husband, Keith O'Connor. Her and her child are meant to contrast with the man and woman to her right as a way of showing that they are without a man. Sandy was a co-founder of the Hoboken 9/11 support group, and some of those people are also depicted here.
The anonymous figures to the left represent some of the victims, and the figures to the right are more specific and represent the 'Hope' aspect of people united.

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