Buildings Embody Humanity
In five sequential images, Mac McGill combines his distinctive, fine-lined ink technique and conception of New York’s World Trade Center towers as humanized forms to comment movingly on the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The second drawing shows both buildings following the assaults, their upper stories enveloped in swirling flames and smoke from which screaming victims’ faces emerge. The towers’ jutting diagonals produce a visually jarring sensation of instability, which adds to the image’s haunting effect.
In five sequential images, Mac McGill combines his distinctive, fine-lined ink technique and conception of New York’s World Trade Center towers as humanized forms to comment movingly on the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The second drawing shows both buildings following the assaults, their upper stories enveloped in swirling flames and smoke from which screaming victims’ faces emerge. The towers’ jutting diagonals produce a visually jarring sensation of instability, which adds to the image’s haunting effect.