Street art · London
Photo: Irid Escent, CC BY-SA 2.0
Since 9/11
By Miya Ando
Stand close and you'll spot the rivets: this twisted steel column is a literal shard of the World Trade Center. Forget polished bronze memorials—here you're face-to-face with raw wreckage turned witness, honest as a found-object sculpture.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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