On that day, I awoke in my mom's apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NYC, to pack for my move from Pittsburgh to Boston. I turned the television on, and could not turn it off. I watched the second plane as it slid into the side of the South Tower. When the towers fell, I saw the aerial footage of the plumes of smoke emanating out of Ground Zero and engulfing Brooklyn, I realized that we were at the center of the flow.

 

I walked out the front door, and stood at the top of the stoop. This is an abstraction of what I saw that day. Papers that once sat atop someone's desk.

 

I was born in the Bronx and lived in Brooklyn for about ten years; my teenage years. I went to highschool on the Hudson River in Manhattan, just a few blocks North from the towers. I went to see them often, and it was one of my many inspirations to study architecture first. I often think of how I will never occupy the same spaces ever again. The skyline will always look naked to me.

 

Julie Chen, Studio for Interrelated Media (Senior, 2012)
Julie first studied Architecture at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 1995 and transfered to SIM in 2009. She now lives in Melrose, MA. Her mother still lives in the same apartment in Brooklyn.

 

Brian Bliven, Animation (MFA 2011)
As a recent graduate from MassArt Animation, Brian aspires to be the art director of Avatar 5. His interests include techno music, science-fiction, fantasy, and twitch-gaming.

 

Max Azanow, set

Eric Freeman, tech

Johnny Chanthavong, daily set up