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September 11th Revisited (The Los Angeles Times - May 8th, 2011)
http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2011/05/the-bin-laden-images-wed-rather-see.html 
The news of Osama bin Laden's "demise," as it's been referred to, inevitably brought many of us back to that tragic day in 2001 when the world at large was introduced to this vain, homicidal maniac. A friend called and woke me up that morning: "Better turn on your TV," he told me. Later, standing on the roof of my apartment building some ten miles away, I could plainly see the two columns of smoke drifting languidly into the blue, early autumn sky. Also visible were the F-15 fighter jets circling Manhattan, as if there might have been an airshow somewhere in the area. But it wasn't an airshow. It was the Real Deal.
The weeks that followed were nervous ones here in New York City. Will we be hit again? The common sight of passenger planes making their low approaches over Manhattan towards LaGuardia Airport were suddenly cause for concern. The myriad characters on a New York City subway car were no longer fodder for sketchbook doodlers, but things to be cautiously watched: What's that guy got in his backpack? That man looks fidgety. Does that tattered package underneath the seat over there belong to anybody?
I began to make drawings, loosely titled the Terrorist Drawings , hoping to somehow exorcise those raw/nervous feelings, and in someway make tangible these spooks that were suddenly a very real part of our daily lives. A week ago, when news broke that Osama bin Laden had been killed, I again felt compelled to make a drawing – a simple attempt to make tangible those things we can't see, and a bookend to the drawings I began nearly ten years ago.
