Description
Crayon drawing by an adolescent depicting the Twin Towers with a bright blue sky in the background. A plane is approaching the North Tower (antenna depicted). The top of the tower on the right is covered in heavy black crayon representing smoke. Orange and red crayon is used to represent fire. The drawing is signed in the upper left corner.

Historical Notes
Art teacher Joel Winston gave his art students at the Monroe Academy for Visual Arts & Design in the Bronx an assignment in the initial weeks after 9/11: visualize their impressions of the attacks without consulting the images and footage that were proliferating in the media coverage. Since many of the high school students had witnessed the attacks first-hand from their classroom windows, Winston wanted them to process that experience through their individualized memories and sensory perceptions. The resulting works were unique and visceral as some students depicted what they saw while others focused on the perpetrators and the broader impacts of terrorism and war.