“People don’t understand how to scale or physically manifest the issue of loss,” Mr. Shigematsu said by telephone. “When you look at how a culture grieves, you are looking at the core of that culture,” Ms. Nicolaisen said at the Armory. “We went to great lengths in explaining this project to them,” Ms. Nicolaisen said. “Look at Obama — the civic duty he has of leading mourning rituals for us as a nation when loss occurs,” Ms. Simon said. Last week, at the Armory, as Ms. Simon greeted arriving mourners for the first time, questions of appropriateness were lifted away by the force of their performances.

Source: New York Times September 11, 2016 21:33 UTC