"Embodied Light" by Richard McBee

The Jewish Art Salon's exhibit is mentioned in the next to last paragraph.

EMBODIED LIGHT: 9-11 IN 2011: AN INSTALLATION BY TOBI KAHN

 Tragedies do not function to teach us well-ordered lessons.  Rather they demand that we turn inward so that we may absorb their impact and, over time, somehow deal with the horror of a violently wounded world.

That is what Tobi Kahn's installation "Embodied Light: 9-11 in 2011" accomplishes.  He has created a meditative space, inviting us to spend some quiet time in the gallery, absorbing the spare wall texts by noted author Nessa Rapoport and contemplate his intriguing installation.  In return we will return to the towers, their tragic end, and gain a complex perspective on what is a defining event of our time.

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