![]() Here’s how such tributes in metal, stone, water, and fire are helping people mourn and move forward. It’s an approach that lends itself not only to the shared grief of 9/11, but also to other tragedies. ![]() As pain changes, so do the edifices we construct to remember it. He and other experts suggest that creators of memorials now recognize that collective trauma transforms over time. “This new set of memorial makers is engaging in metaphor, trying to evoke complexity,” says Spencer Bailey, author of the new book, In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials. In a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, a 93-foot-tall tower sings with 40 aluminum wind chimes.Ĭompared with realistic, figurative memorials commissioned by previous generations, these three 9/11 tributes can feel abstract, personal, even puzzling. Beside the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, a park holds 184 steel and granite benches, each bearing the name of a life lost when a passenger jet crashed into the building on September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, where the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers once soared, a pair of waterfalls now plunges 50 feet into the ground. The sites also reveal a marked shift in how we collectively confront past trauma. The terrorist attacks 20 years ago reshaped the world in unfathomable ways.īut at three sites in the eastern United States, where thousands of people died in terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, tributes aim to help visitors process those painful events. ![]() Figuring out how to memorialize 9/11 has been a monumental undertaking.
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