When the world trade centers fell, a great piece of art was also lost along with so much else. I was there, and forgot about that piece, as there were more important things to tend to than art. Yet, years later, I realized that huge piece was also buried in the same rubble as everything else…..

Art lost at 911: a thank you note to Joan Miro:

Women, birds and the moon
Are still good meditations, Miro. Thanks John
Thanks for turning our attention upwards and inwards
During the wars, and rubble making contentions.
Thanks instead for making constellations!
Not escaping war, but contextualizing it at least, and being buried
With it. 
And again sorry we did not have a funeral for your piece at the world
Trade centers that day. Art to ashes
And ashes to .art But there are few funerals
For art these days. And world trade
Isn’t the safest place for art to dwell, it seems.
But thanks for that maquette in Milwaukee though later.
Hopefully there will be no wars there.
Your grand painting beneath that same rubble
Of all wars is probably still reflected in the pools there somehow. Thanks for making it anyway. Perhaps
People enjoyed it in their last moments!
So about that painting bro. I was there, but had
People on my mind. No time for funerals for art in this life.
Wish I could’ve grabbed it for you though.
But it was way too big for that day.
But here’s my art eulogy for it, anyway.