Circling Zero Part One We See Absence (2002)

Our daughter Nisi and son Aza happened to both be staying at our loft on Chambers Street when fundamentalist Islam struck A friend observing the burning buildings from Brooklyn phoned to say Get out It can fall on you But we were upstate until 915 when the city partially reopened to incoming traffic so that my taping begins with our approach over the almost empty George Washington Bridge It would be another 15 days before we were allowed to move back into our place Our friend Lucia lent us her highrise apartment facing south with a deadon view of smoking lower Manhattan I kept taping hours of street observations Although Ive given a title to this loose selection of materials it is not so much a work as sampling of the ongoing actuality Ken Jacobs