It happened in broad daylight, on 11th September of the year 2001. The air attack on the Twin Towers in New York was a destructive act of infernal dimensions. This day will go down in history as a date never to be forgotten.
Months later, after a tortuous imaginative process in search of some kind of sense, the outcome was a creative concept; showing the disproportionate destruction of material and life from a bird's eye perspective.   The ground plan of Ground Zero is marked out within an area of intense red. This grey, constructed area - small in proportion to the picture format - encompasses an imagined rebuilding. It lies in the midst of a dynamic environment of blood- and fire-red colour extending beyond its own limits ...
... in my opinion, hope may be found by trusting in the creative power of natural laws and in the belief that Kant was correct with his central statement that "It is only as a moral being that man may be acknowledged as the purpose of creation".
Gisela Schlicht from the Corbusier House Berlin, July 2002
Ground Zero
2002 100 x 150 cm acrylics / canvas
ground zero n (1946) the point directly above, below, or at which a nuclear explosion occurs the center or origin of rapid, intense, or violent activity or change the very beginning: square one
from: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition, 2001 Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Agent for the work Ground Zero is: Irena Nalepa, Galerie Schoen + Nalepa, Berlin, schoen@berlinboxx.de telephone: +49 / (0)30 / 85 96 25 25
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