After much thought, Jenny Holzer came up with her own way to memorialize the attacks of September 11. Starting tomorrow night, she will project words onto some of New York's most visible buildings.

"With the help of the public art organization Creative Time, Ms. Holzer, 55, will project United States government documents and the words of some 20 international poets for 11 night on the facades of five buildings: 30 Rockefeller Center and two other buildings in that complex; the Bobst Library at New York University in Greenwich Village; and the New York Public Libarary," reports today's New York Times.

The documents and poems are subjects like the war in Iraq, torture, and homeland security. The Bobst Library will be the backdrop for recent government documents released under the Freedom of Information Act. "The documents are e-mail messages or on letterhead from the Department of Defense, the F.B.I. and other institutions whose names have been officially whited or blacked out, as has paragraph after paragraph of information," writes the New York Times. One such document contains three lines of information and two pages of redacted lines.

"In test runs, these projections have enveloped passersby in white words, uncanny and sufficiently transparent to let the sturdy reality of buildings, trees and roaming dogs show through."


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