Liberty is a unique piece and shows a weeping statue of liberty terrified at the most critical moments in the collapse of a tower and a plane crashing into the other.
My artwork is usually centered around anthropomorphic characters that represent nostalgic places that were in my hometown, & related characters. I was born in 1989, & I'm very egalitarian in a more generally socially conservative town.
When I sat down to do a painting commemorating 911, the first thing that came to mind was the beautiful clear blue sky that day which I wanted to capture in my work.
This song came to me as I was listening to a radio talk show the morning of the terrorist attacks, September 11, 2001. The talk show host was describing the emotions that were surrounding the whole event.
On Sept 11, 2001 I was having an oil change on my car and while waiting, I saw on TV the first plane hit the Tower. My first thought was this cannot be, This is America.
The original version of my folk ballad, "Day of Ash", was composed on the third weekend of October, 2001. Slightly over a month after the tragic happenstances that occurred in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania.
While the lyrics of Martyrs of Manhattan were written the evening of the September 11th attack on the United States, a suitable melody was not found until nearly three years later.