An art project created by and for the community where they can come together, walk, meditate, gather strength and share in remembering the loss of over 4,500 people on Semptember 11.

The "Path of Rememberance" addressed the public's collective need to grieve, not through 30-second sound bytes, but over a prolonged period of time. It was comprised of blue, four-petaled flowers, painted alternately silhouette and outline. The flowers repeated one after the other, touching petal-to-petal, as though holding hands. Each flower occupied the approximate space a person would occupy if standing shoulder-to-shoulder. This repetitive floral image captured, in a quantifiable way, the extraordinary number of lives lost in this national tragedy. A viewer could walk the entire pathway experiencing the actual space 4,500 people would occupy if standing hand-in-hand. Such an execution can stretch over an entire mile.

The monumental scale of the piece was challenged by the humble use of materials, and the simple repetitive motif. The flowers were painted on the pavement in a water-based paint, making them impermanent, their slow disappearance similar to the easing of grief over time.

The flower was chosen as a symbol for its well-know capacity to offer solace and warmth during difficult times. Each flower had individual characteristics, echoing the special nature of each person lost in this momentous tragedy.

The project was executed in two days. The first participant was a child from a lost New York fire fighter offering up the first flower. This project was open to the community with a focus on school children, children of firemen, and children from the community outreach programs. In addition, both Gallery 37 and the Marwin Foundation offered their expertise in the facilitation of this project.