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| Graydon Parrish, The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy: September 11, 2001, 2002–2005 New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, Connecticut |
The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy, an epic oil eighteen feet wide and eight feet high, is set on a desolate sandbar in New York harbor where the Twin Towers once stood. There are a dozen figures in the composition, ranging in age from very young to very old. In the background can be seen the ruined silhouette of lower Manhattan at Ground Zero.
The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy is loosely composed into four semi-autonomous sections. It can be read chronologically, from the group of innocent blindfolded children on the left to the center, with the figures of Terror and Tragedy attended by the three Fates, and ending on the far right with an old man passing off a new blindfold to a young girl. “The girl represents the return to innocence and the start of the cycle all over again,” the artist’s printed text explains.
(Above excerpts from: http://www.nccsc.net/2007/8/31/grand-themes-need-great-art)
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