I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.
Michael AradThere are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.
Michael AradHow do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?
Michael AradI think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.
Michael AradIt sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.
Michael Arad