I've visited New York a few times, once I remember going to the top of the trade center and looking out over the city. Another time I remember being there for hands across america. The city had some profound affects on me, not all positive, but affects that led to work I would make in drawing and painting for several years later. After 9/11/01 I searched for my pictures of the towers that were destroyed. They seemed insignificant knowing that it was the loss of life, not the buildings that was the tragedy, but it was the iconographic symbol of the buildings that many of us have clung to as a connection to the tragedy. I began making some images using some of my old photos from the trips I made to New York. I'll share some of these with you all over the next few days. Some of these are re-photographing the old b/w prints with words written on paper and held over the photograph, I do this by holding the paper and photo up to a bear 300 watt bulb and photographing the light coming through the sandwich paper and photo. Photograph by Richard Sayer