This is a song composed by myself along with a slide video which describes my feeling through words music and pictures about what happened on that terrible day in September 2001.
After 9/11, I was moved by the stories of the rescue dogs, and the work that they did at ground zero. Picture after picture sent over the web showed dogs and their handlers scrambling tirelessly amidst the rubble looking for survivors.
The circle and square grid format is something I have been experimenting with since college. Ten years ago this format came back to me as a means of expressing a contemplative repetition which was spiritual in nature.
Who is Harrison?
Harrison is a 46 years old ordinary man, married, a father, a painter, an artist. Very few know him and very few have seen him, but Harrison lives.
A series Twin Tower pictures shot in August of 1974 while I was in the New York area for a cousin's wedding. They were brand spanking new and were not yet opened at the time.
Just three months after the World Trade Towers were struck; Steve Berman, Dawn Haines and I went to New York City and interviewed many survivors and rescue workers about their personal recollections of the events surrounding the attacks.