enlightend monkey Logo on transparent.pn
Talk to an Enlightened Monkey!
  • Home

  • About

  • Services

    • Tech Art Rentals for your Event or Festival
  • Projection Mapping

  • Gallery

    • And Then There Was Quiet, New York After 9/11, Traveling Exhibit
  • Contact

  • More

    Use tab to navigate through the menu items.

    Enlightenedmonkeyarts@gmail.com

    (617) 823-5081

    • Pinterest
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • googlePlaces
    Let Us Tell Your Story!

    And Then There Was Quiet

    New York After 9/11

    ​

    a traveling exhibit by Dave Gordon

    And Then There Was Quiet, New York After 9/11
    And Then There Was Quiet, New York After 9/11

    Back Ground: On September 11, 2001, two American Airlines planes struck the World Trade Center, killing over 2,700 people. America entered a period of near panicked shock. The news media began its relentless 24 hour media blitz of what quickly came to be known as 9/11. After watching what he calls “the hysteria on TV” from his living room in Somerville Massachusetts, artist Dave Gordon felt there was something profoundly missing from what he was seeing. He quickly made arrangements to go to NY, and within a few days, he was in Manhattan with his camera documenting the part of the story that was not getting covered. The photos taken show a quiet and somber New York that was profoundly supportive and that the rest of the country was largely unaware of. The photos Gordon took on that trip, and on a return trip a week later, became the core of his show “And Then There Was Quiet: New York After 9/11.” 
     

    Central Park
    Central Park
    Makeshift Memorial
    Dust on Hangers
    Dust on Hangers
    Jean Shop across for WTC.
    Dust on Window Sill
    Dust on Window Sill
    Several blocks from WTC
    Gatorade and Gas Mask
    Gatorade and Gas Mask
    Collecting Dust
    Collecting Dust
    Artist Dave Gordon collects dust covering the American Jean Shop accross from WTC
    The Look
    The Look
    Mount Sinai Medical Center, Photo by Dave Gordon
    The last functioning Subway Stop before Ground Zero
    The last functioning Subway Stop before Ground Zero
    Gurney waiting for injured that never arrived, left for days after the attack.
    Hose
    Hose
    Abandoned a block from Ground Zero
    Patriot
    Patriot
    In the early morning one new yorker quietly places an American Flag on his motercycle, completely unaware of me and my camera
    Mount Sinai Medical Center
    Mount Sinai Medical Center
    Looking for loved ones, New Yorkers placed missing posters on the glass windors of the hospital.
    Mount Sinai Medical Center 2
    Mount Sinai Medical Center 2
    Missing Poster wall
    Missing Poster wall
    Po
    Po
    Shrine
    Shrine
    Missing Poster Wall
    Missing Poster Wall
    Missing Poster
    Missing Poster
    Missing Poster
    Missing Poster
    Children's Flag
    Children's Flag
    American Flag made of Hundreds of paper hearts, created by local school children
    Cathedral
    Cathedral
    As close as we could get to Ground Zero

    For each exhibition venue, Gordon enhances the viewer's experience by creating intimate site-specific installations. These poignant displays echo the themes of his photography. They include “The Wall of Missing Posters” containing a large number of photographs of the posters that the families of the missing put up in the aftermath of the attack. He also creates a reproduction of the type of makeshift shrine that appeared throughout Manhattan after 9/11. A major highlight of the show is a beautifully presented small terrarium of the dust which resulted from the collapse of the Twin Towers and covered Lower Manhattan like snow. Within each exhibit, Gordon strives to create intimate environments that stimulate conversation, contemplation and reflection. He works to present the events of 9/11 on a human scale allowing viewers to make constructive emotional connections.

    Visitor
    Visitor
    2015 Tampa, Fl Library
    Rememberance Ribbon
    Rememberance Ribbon
    In 2016, Dave Gordon wanted to create away for the public to leave their mark on the exhibit, the result was the creation of a rememberance ribbon wall where indiviguals could write a rememberance and leave for other visitors to see.
    Out of gallery

    (617) 823-5081

    133 S Lime Ave, Sarasota, FL 34237, USA

    • YouTube
    • Facebook

    ©2019 by Enlightened Monkey Arts. Proudly created with Wix.com