These images are from a group of thirty-three ink on paper drawings and one work in colour made at the World Trade Centre site in the winter of 2001-2. They include Saint Paul's Chapel on Broadway which had become a centre for people working on the recovery and clearing operation. After some time on the perimeter of the site Lucinda was given access behind the scenes and the resulting drawings provide an insight into Ground Zero at a time when photography was hardly permitted. The original drawings were exhibited in London in 2002 and reproduced later at Saint Paul's Chapel.
'Because the physical form of New York was by then so familiar to me I wanted to portray something of what had happened to it. Allowed into these unseen parts of the site I felt an urgency to record extraordinary, passing scenes and the people dedicated to their gruelling task.'
Broadway and Fulton on Christmas Day 2001
50 x 70cm
Broadway and Fulton on Christmas Day 2001 (detail)
Trucks on West Street in line for loading barges
52 x 72cm 2001
Port Authority policeman Rudy Hernandez with EMS workers
49 x 70cm 2002
Port Authority policeman Rudy Hernandez with EMS workers (detail)
K9 rescue dog with his owner
44 x 36cm 2002
Interior of the morgue
36 x 44cm 2002
Interior of St Paul's chapel
55 x 66cm 2002
Interior of St Paul's chapel (detail)
Beds arranged around the organ upstairs
44 x 36cm 2002
Four fireman asleep in the chapel
41 x 46cm 2002
Fireman just in
36 x 44cm 2002
Firemen's suits hanging in Ten Ten firehouse
44 x 36cm 2002
In the Salvation Army tent
36 x 71cm 2002
Ground Zero looking north, seen from the firehouse at night
60 x 84cm 2002
Ground Zero looking north, seen from the firehouse at night (detail)