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Remembering 911

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Remembering 911- My heart and thoughts are with all who suffer the events past.
I have a master key from the World Trade Center shared by a local family to which I will incorporate in 911 monument sculpture upcoming. The 911- monument “Respectful Remembrances” made by me is open at The Wilton Fire Company on Ballard Rd, 6-9 pm tonight. Wishing all peace!~

911 metal sculpture

Industrial Nation -metal sculpture stands 18′

Sculpture for 9-11
Sculpture incorporates -I Beam from the World Trade Center. Sculpture is on permanent display- Wilton NY Fire Department, Open to the public daily.

911 Metal Sculpture

Joan Bryden from “Talk at Ten” interviews Artist miChelle Vara.

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http://radio.securenetsystems.net//v4/index.cfm?stationCallSign=WPIB#.T6PzLWl2U-E.

 

Joan Bryden Radio show Talk At Ten WPCR & WPTB

It was really fun and easy to talk with Joan from Ottawa Broadcasting.

Joan is the program director and host of the radio shows -Talk at ten and Turn of Page for WPCR and WPTB. I understand why she is so successful, she made me feel as though I was having a conversation over tea, and it was not stressful at all. Thanks Joan I enjoyed meeting you and spending time with you and chatting it up.  Thanks Again………………

Radio Interview "Talk At Ten"

Times Union- 9-11 Sculpture

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Respectful RemembrancesSculpture for 9-11

August 30,
2011 at 7:20 pm by Dennis
Yusko

http://blog.timesunion.com/saratogaseen/respectful-remembrances/10393/

Artist
Michelle M. Vara has created a commemorative sculpture with steel from the
World Trade Center that will be permanently displayed inside the Wilton Fire
Department starting Sept. 11, the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist
attacks.

Vara, of
Wilton, is completing the piece at her Ballard Road Art Studio. She calls the 50”
by 57” sculpture “Respectful Remembrances.” It seeks to unite and uplift, while
honoring the past. Firefighter Ray Baily acquired the metal, and brought it to
Vara.

“As an
artist, it is invigorating to have been given such an eminent opportunity,” she
said. “You can see the sever duress the iron has been through by the bends that
are in it. It encapsulates immense spirit and energy.”

8/30/11 Times Union Pg1

  The Wilton Fire Department wanted a piece
that everyone could touch and connect with. Vara incorporated an arched, rusted
piece of Angel iron – representing the escape from Manhattan on the Brooklyn
Bridge, the bending, but not breaking, of strength; a ¾-inch round down post,
intentionally bent, wavy and rusted; a small offshoot of ¼” flat stock; and the
circle – representing inexhaustible implications, unity, and all the forces
-medical, fire, rescue, military – that worked collectively.

“The
remembrance of life lost, given and shared, the innocents of a nation changed
and our troops on the front, even now, are also meant to be implied in the
overall of this piece,” the artist said.

Saratogian News- 911 Memorial Sculpture

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Twin Towers metal into Sculpture

911- metal sculpture "Respectful Remembrance"

“As an artist it is invigorating to
have been given such an eminent opportunity”…….

The sculpture piece I call “Respectful Remembrances” is
meant to reflect the unity of Americans’ in all walks of life, offering an
uplifting sense of healing and forward progression, on the home front horizon,
without forgetting the past.

911 Metal Sculpture

Twin Towers metal made into sculpture

Twin Towers metal made into sculpture911- metal sculpture "Respectful Remembrance"

The remembrance of life lost, given and shared, the innocents of a nation changed and our troops on the front, even now, are also meant to be implied in the over all of this piece.

In overwhelming gratitude, to Ray Baily For his trust……

miChelle M. Vara

POSTSTAR NEWS- Sept. 11 monument to be ready in time for anniversary

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911 Moument sculpture using World Trade center steel

Vara working on finish to be done in time for 9-11 Tribute

Post Star 8/27/2011
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WILTON -
- When officials with the Wilton Fire Department received a long-awaited piece of the former World Trade Center, they weren’t exactly sure what to do with it.
So they took it to an artist.

Memorial sculpture for 911

“Respectful Remembrances.”

Michelle Vara, a sculptor in the town for 25 years, went to work on the twisted section of a steel I-beam the department had requested roughly four years ago.
“They said, ‘Use your judgment. Make it a sentence. Make it a statement,’” Vara said.
The sculpture – and the metals she added to it, each with its own meaning – will be displayed at the firehouse on Ballard Road in time for the coming 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
It’s smaller and less controversial than the towering metal sculpture Saratoga Springs officials recently backed away from displaying in front of City Hall.
Vara, who operates 6 Ballard Road Art Studio Gallery, said her piece has a different feel. She said it’s one of “positive retrospect,” and that she was drawn to the unity she saw after the Sept. 11 attacks.
“Some really awesome things came out of an awful event,” she said. “The camaraderie of human existence is mind-blowing – how people took care of their neighbors.”
While most of the metal in the sculpture was deliberately rusted by Vara, one piece was not: a piece she bent into a circle. It stands out with a silver shine in the sculpture.
“The circle represents unity, how everyone came together and how people worked together – people from all walks of the Earth,” she said.
One of the legs is wavy and inconsistent with the others, which she said represents the questions that remain unanswered about the disaster.
Firefighter Ray Bailey, who requested the piece of metal years ago when he was the department’s president, got a glimpse of it for the first time Friday.
“I think it’s wonderful,” he said. “I think it’s very expressive, and I think she did a good job conveying the energy and the emotion.”
He said it was a meaningful coincidence that, after waiting years to find out if the department would receive the metal – and then a few more to actually get it – it arrived just months before the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
When it’s put on display, the department plans to incorporate a multimedia showing of a decade-old project called “Through the Eyes of a Child,” Bailey said. It consists of letters written by young children of firefighters in the department reflecting on the attacks shortly after they happened.
Many of the children who wrote those letters, Bailey said, are now firefighters.
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