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Reporters, yesterday, described “relief” as the primary emotion experienced by those interviewed at the World Trade Center site  about the capture and killing of bin Laden.  I live right next to the World Trade Center site, and a part of me does feel a kind of relief over these events.  There’s another part of me, however,  that can only put the words “relief” and “the face of terrorism” into a single sentence  if I also add in the phrase “just not think about it.”  Example:  ‘the only way I can feel relief in the face of terrorism is to just not think about it.”

The fact is that if you live down here, and pass the site every day, you really do have to make an effort to banish past and possibly future events from your mind and to just go on with your daily activities.

In my case, these  activities have lately involved goofing around on the iPad or iPhone, especially with the great painting app “Brushes”, and more recently with the photo app, “Photogene.”   Above is a painting of lilacs that I made with the Brushes App using a real photograph as a visual model.  I then deleted the photograph (it had been a separate “layer” in the painting), and saved my own painting as a photo.  That’s what’s above.

I then pulled the painting/photo up on Photogene, which offers a bunch of cool filters to adjust it.   Below is the same painting, filtered as a “comic.”

Not perhaps a great art, but a great way of occupying the mind.

P.S. – These pictures got cropped a bit weirdly in the upload to WordPress!  One of the hazards of working digitally.