Kickstarter

In the days after September 11, what I remember about Manhattan was the city’s silence. No cars. No airplanes. No clouds, except for the dust from the rubble where the Twin Towers once stood. We read the New York Times. Its silence matched the city’s shocked silence, and provided us with the composure to carry on. 

For the past decade, we have carried the papers from those days with us. Its news remained too raw for us to throw away or recycle.

Ten years later, I look back and wonder: What happened? How did one day of terror become a decade of terrorism, of war, of fear? Now, it’s time to let go, time to create something new. 

If you don't want to feel terrified anymore, please contribute. Let's build something of beauty on the foundation of this sorrow.

9/11 Knit is a textile project that will transform the stories and images in the pages of these newspapers into knitted representations of the Twin Towers. Each page will be cut and spun into yarn and subsequently knit into distinct, two-dimensional views of the Towers. 

These pieces will be shown this November at Seattle's Gallery 110. I will also donate one piece to the 9/11 Memorial. 

Here's a quick look at the stages of this transformation: 

Each sheet of newspaper is hand-cut.

It is then spun into balls of yarn.

Subsequently, the yarn is knitted into a final textile that is mounted and framed

Here is a close-up.

Funds for this project will be used to cut and spin these newspapers into yarn, to design, knit and frame the textile pieces. 

(Special thanks to Soundcloud for music in video.)