dark sombre view of what was the WTC, the "new" New York

My little digital camera -- a quick dark snap shot...the mystical tower is the Jefferson Library which was once a court house where Mae West was taken after being arrested for her Broadway show Sex in the late 1927* and she did serve time with true grace, dignity and humor..."old New York" in contrast to the bad xerox "new" hideous new york.

Click on this sad dark photo and you will see a tour bus with the advertisement "This is your New York"  dissecting the photo at the base and looking south from just above 14th St.,  West Village,  mystical Jefferson Library down at the WTC with so many cranes piercing the dark sky. 

 Please make the leap with symbology as if this was a dark painting or dream I am asking you to analyze and look at the enormous cranes in the background.

NYC city wide has cranes piercing the sky because of this tsunami of community crushing development that came crashing down on us post 9-11.

I would look down and see the World Trade Center and I would go for long runs down there but now my knees are shot and  just walking is painful.  This is a dark sombre view now of what can be seen today...It is important to click on the image to see it larger but I am not interested in "perfection" or perfect expressions but passion and my art audience and readers feel the heart and soul of my expressions.  I also want to thank the editors of my passionate letters published especially the dynamo that edited my Bruno Schulz letter in The New York Times and the editor of  my   WSJ letter.  It is amazing my letter "Betrayal at Ground Zero" made it into the WSJ...talk about breaking through a wall.

I can't get  mind, heart and soul around 9-11.  I can't get mind, heart and soul around what happened here in NYC post 9-11...this new hideous new york built on old new york's infrastructure and the death toll and destruction that looked like terror attacks that were not terror attacks. 

I miss the NYC pre-Sept. 11 in so many ways.

p.s. I am a Mae West fan and Madonna clearly was inspired by Mae West as an artist and business woman although Madonna is going for the Marlene Deitrich look these days.  Mae West's legal bill for her arrest for the play she wrote and performed in "Sex" was 30,000 dollars but the publicity was estimated at one million dollars.  (Translate that in to dollars now.)  Mae West was way ahead of her time; sometimes I feel like I am from the future and that is where I imagine my art will get the recognition deserved.  I never wanted people lacking passion for my art to own my art work but now caring for my art and storing it feels impossible.  In the context of Sept. 11 it all seems meaningless at least right now but the one benefit of fame while alive is the mega good you can do helping out but as individual just walking down the street you can do so much to help out picking up litter or handing a homeless person a sweater and some food, etc.  I am so tired I want to rest and no more blogging for 24 hours.

*I wrote the wrong year and have since corrected it because of a wonderful comment posted on my blog.  I hope you will go see Courting Mae West!