Collage
Remembrance
- Description
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Diptych collage on particle board titled Remembrance by Elaine Forrest. The collage is composed of two panels. The left panel includes torn paper with the Twin Towers made from newsprint images of victim's faces taken from the New York Times. The North Tower has a three-dimensional quality. The Statue of Liberty is painted to the left of the towers, accented in red. An airplane is drawn in charcaol and pointed towards the left tower. The right panel of the diptych is composed of torn paper, with a larger charcoal drawing of an airplane approaching the tower on the right.
Each panel is covered in Minwax Polycrylic clear protective finish. - Historical Notes
- Having lived in California for many years, native New Yorker Elaine Forrest returned to Manhattan in January 2001, moving with her husband to lower Manhattan. Forrest was at home on the morning of September 11, 2001, and felt the impact of the planes striking the towers as well as their successive collapses. Her collage incorporates bits of paper and other debris that had blown from the towers onto her terrace and surrounding streets.
Curator's Comment
Decades spent in California led Elaine Forrest to respond on 9/11 as though she were experiencing an earthquake. She braced herself accordingly and sheltered in place at her apartment in lower Manhattan throughout the morning.
Later, Forrest discovered that bits of paper and other debris from the towers had blown onto her terrace and the surrounding streets. In keeping with her usual artistic practice of incorporating found materials into her artwork, she collaged some of the orphaned paper into the canvas that would become Remembrance. Forrest also worked with the motif of victims’ faces excerpted from the New York Times’s “Portraits of Grief” series, creating symbolic Twin Towers from images she cut from the newspaper.
Forrest worked on this piece for six years. In 2011, The Freyberger Gallery at Penn State Berks included Remembrance in “The 9/11 Memorial Exhibition” commemorating the 10th anniversary of September 11th.
Later, Forrest discovered that bits of paper and other debris from the towers had blown onto her terrace and the surrounding streets. In keeping with her usual artistic practice of incorporating found materials into her artwork, she collaged some of the orphaned paper into the canvas that would become Remembrance. Forrest also worked with the motif of victims’ faces excerpted from the New York Times’s “Portraits of Grief” series, creating symbolic Twin Towers from images she cut from the newspaper.
Forrest worked on this piece for six years. In 2011, The Freyberger Gallery at Penn State Berks included Remembrance in “The 9/11 Memorial Exhibition” commemorating the 10th anniversary of September 11th.
- Accession Number: C.2018.39.1
- Dimensions: 79 in X 102 in X 3.25 in
- Dimensions (Metric): 200.66 cm X 259.08 cm X 8.255 cm
- Source: Elaine Forrest
- Credit Line: Gift of the artist
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