From the Artist: "This work was done on wood and consists of a collage of photos and 'newspaper headlines' (which I had made on my computer), painted over using encaustic technique, and finally aluminum strips were added to the piece. Simply entitled September 11th, I made this piece while feeling the full intensity of grief, rage, and pain of the time. Etched in my mind so clearly were the images of the fireballs engulfing the twin towers; that is what the black and orange wax represents. Showing through the 'flames and smoke' are the images of some of the heros – firefighters at the Pentagon draping the American flag on the building, as well as headlines about all of the planes the terrorists brought down, in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. The fixed objects represent the remaining pieces of the facade of the World Trade Center, which stood out so eerily in the smoking wreckage of the collapsed towers."

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