Descriptions by survivors of the World Trade Center bombings spurred the creation of this piece. Each of us has images from that day that stick with us: people helping each other down the fire stair, calm in the face of grave danger, ultimately unaware of what was to become of that narrow column.

Installed in the front windows at 911 Media Arts Center are five enlarged details from a single drawing that is ten times as high as it is wide. The drawing, created over a series of months, began with a linear representation of a stair tower with over two hundred descending figures. The act of adding life to each figure in the drawing is the artist's small memorial to both the survivors and the dead. This drawing represents fourteen flights of stairs - there were over 100 flights in each World Trade Center tower.

Anne Hayden Stevens is a painter who lives and works in Seattle. She is a 2002 recipient of an Artist Trust GAP grant in the Visual Arts, and has exhibited work locally at COCA, the Kirkland Arts Center, and the Bellevue Art Museum as an artist in residence in the 2000 Pacific Northwest Annual. Her website can be viewed at http://faculty.washington.edu/ahs/

911 Windows presents:
INTERNAL STRUCTURE
an installation by Juniper Shuey
November 21 - December 20
Opening reception: Thursday, November 21, 5 - 7pm

Modern identity is a complex interaction between our physical body and the physical space that it occupies. We have an ability to travel great distances with little effect physically on our body. This means that our new identities are based not within just our local physical communities but a broader more global community.

INTERNAL STRUCTURE is a three channel video installation created specifically for 911 Media Arts Center's front windows. The central image is a meditation on an individual's involvement with self, how we look within ourselves and often create who we think we are projecting to the outside world. The next two windows are the outward interaction with others on a personal level: the hug, the kiss, the touch of others. The outside windows show the coming and going that our global culture has created between communities.

Juniper Shuey graduated with a B.F.A. in Ceramics from the University of Washington. He was the winner of the "People's Choice Award" at the 2001 Northwest Annual at Bellevue Art Museum, and was one of the artists featured this year in the notable exhibition "Lava" at Noodleworks. Juniper has been a member of SOIL Artist's Collective and was a founding member of the influential artist's group Artdrill.