Proposal Rockaway 9/11 memorial Lisa Hein 2002
THE CUBE A bleacher faces the water on Jamaica Bay. It watches the Manhattan skyline to the northwest. The center of the bleacher is cut out in a square. A black cube rises through. The cube is not a solid material, but a metal scaffold draped with black chain link: layer after layer, until the appearance is soft and opaque. Names of local 9/11 victims mounted on rear corners of the cube recall the lights of the World Trade Center towers at night. The Ka'aba dons chain mail armor for the new crusades.
Proposal Rockaway 9/11 memorial Lisa Hein 2002
THE CUBE A bleacher faces the water on Jamaica Bay. It watches the Manhattan skyline to the northwest. The center of the bleacher is cut out in a square. A black cube rises through. The cube is not a solid material, but a metal scaffold draped with black chain link: layer after layer, until the appearance is soft and opaque. Names of local 9/11 victims mounted on rear corners of the cube recall the lights of the World Trade Center towers at night. The Ka'aba dons chain mail armor for the new crusades.