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  • Patriotic Americana - After 9/11. An aerosol American flag sprayed on a grassy knoll. In the week after the September 11th attacks, America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity. Evidence of a resilient nation was found on many roadsides. Here, a local garage owner has aerosol-sprayed the Stars and Stripes onto a grassy verge on Highway 422 in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania.."These Colours Don't Run." - From a New York City T-shirt...

  • Washington Memorial, Washington DC. Patriotic Americana - After 9/11.American flags fly at half-mast at the Washington memorial, Washington DC. In the week after the September 11th attacks, America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity. Flags fly at half-mast beneath the Washington Memorial, Washington DC...

  • Wall Street, Manhattan.Patriotic Americana - After 9/11.American flag hanging in a smoke-filled Wall Street..In the week after the September 11th attacks, America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity. On the Monday following the attacks, Wall Street sprang back into life and its disrupted workers returned to their dusty offices. Meanwhile, above their heads, flags hung defiantly from the financial institutions amid a blue, dusty haze. New York City. "Star Spangled Banners." - From the American national anthem..

  • Patriotic Americana - After 9/11.Attending a floral memorial in a 5th Avenue store front..In the week after the September 11th attacks, America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity. .As New Yorkers try to pick up the pieces of their lives in mid-town Manhatten , a worker carefully waters a floral memorial in the window of a 5th Avenue store window. New York City. "Don't waste time in mourning. Organize!" - From a New York poster.

  • Patriotic Americana - After 9/11. A Baptist church proclamation, Maryland USA. In the week after the September 11th attacks, America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity. A patriotic, Christian message is spelled outside a Baptist church in Cedar Grove, Maryland.."That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." - By Abraham Lincoln?s Gettysburg Address, November 19th, 1863.

  • WTC stencils, Manhattan. Patriotic Americana - After 9/11.Pedestrian shadows pass an aerosol World trade Center stencil. In the week after the September 11th attacks, America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity. .Near New York City?s Armory, where relatives of the victims reported with DNA samples, a stencilled ?rest in peace? message has been sprayed onto the pavement for New Yorkers to walk over while paying their respects to the missing thousands whose pictures adorn the neighbouring walls. "We're gonna get busy!" - From the Jay Leno TV show...

  • Ground Zero volunteer, Manhattan. Patriotic Americana - After 9/11. Ground Zero volunteer sits on a mid-town sidewalk (pavement). In the week after the September 11th attacks, America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity..

  • Patriotic Americana - After 9/11.Collection of iconic imagery, Union Square NYC.In the week after the September 11th attacks, America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity. Messages of support, grief and unwelcome dissent are displayed around Union Square, accompanied by a cut-out of John Wayne. New York City. "The voice of freedom will not be silenced." - From CNN

  • Interstate rest stop, New York State. Patriotic Americana - After 9/11. Television moment of President Bush visiting Ground Zero. In the week after the September 11th attacks, America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity. Seen on CNN at a rest-stop in New York State, President Bush visits the workers at Ground Zero next to Burger King..

  • Patriotic Americana - After 9/11. American icons dislayed beneath a tree near the Pentagon. In the week after the September 11th attacks, America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity. A smiling portrait of President Bush is surrounded by icons of American achievement, including a garlanded B52 bomber, placed as a makeshift memorial overlooking the charred Pentagon building, Washington DC. "President Bush is a great Christian.. the angels are looking after him and America." - As quoted from a Washington citizen.

  • Patriotic Americana - After 9/11. Cowboy.com ad and patriotic threat, Maryland. In the week after the September 11th attacks, America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity. An internet company?s cowboy advert which sits comfortably above warmongering rhetoric is plainly seen alongside Highway 27 in Townsville, Maryland. "Wanted Dead or Alive!" - Headline from the New York Daily News tabloid newspaper.

  • Times Square ads, Manhattan. Patriotic Americana - After 9/11. Advertising bllboard hoardings and American flags in Times Square, NYC. In the week after the September 11th attacks, America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity. Flags and ads adorn a construction site in Times Square...

  • During a journey into America's hinterlands, days after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, a team of New York City Police Department (NYPD) and a US Marshal walks through a barrier after spending a traumatic shift searching for human remains in the 'Pile' of Ground Zero. Making their way through the general public, they have a look of exhaustion and stress. Haunted but still mindful of the enormous task ahead to investigate the crimes committed here, they go towards a welcome rest. The streets are tall above them and the sky a clear blue as the men carry their hard hats with dust masks still around their necks - protection from the then unknown hazardous elements and chemicals in the environment.

  • During a journey into America's hinterlands, days after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, eccentric New Yorkers gather at the city's Armory to offer help and support by handing our fluffy bunnies to passers-by. The streets between 66th and 67th Streets, in the heart of Manhattan's Upper East Side, DNA samples were taken at the Armory so human remains might be identified. It was therefore a point of focus for those with missing relatives who attached thousands of posters to walls with pictures and messages to loved-ones in the hope of being reunited. Emotions were running high and many citizens offered spiritual aide such as food and drink. In outpourings of grief, anger and patriotic rhetoric, flags were flown as never before as America sought to express their emotions and unity..

  • During a journey into America's hinterlands, days after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, the streets between 66th and 67th Streets, in the heart of Manhattan's Upper East Side, was a point of focus for those with missing relatives who attached thousands of posters to walls with pictures and messages to loved-ones in the hope of being reunited. DNA samples were taken at the nearby Armory so human remains might be identified. Here, the coloured ink from desktop printers prints have streaked after rain soaked the posters leaving a sense of the tragic disappearance of thousands - a haunting detail of the missing and the dead. Emotions were therefore running high and we see the sad, rain-soaked messages, the faces of happy people and their physical descriptions and contacts numbers. In most cases, these people were never seen again..

  • The Monday morning following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th we see commuters disembarking from the Staten Island Ferry terminal in Manhattan. Bravely returning to office desks they find their city skyline missing the Twin Towers with Manhattan still in a state of perpetual shock and still under a mist of smoke from the debris at Ground Zero. To celebrate the return to commercial near-normality, New Yorkers' spirit was proved intact by the hanging of US flags from buildings. An American flag hangs over the workers walking along a exit gantry before emerging into the morning before another working day.

  • Anti-war graffiti at the Lincoln memorial, Washington DC..Patriotic Americana - After 9/11. Chalked anti-war graffiti on the pavement near the Lincoln Memorial. In the week after the September 11th attacks, America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity. Rarely-seen anti-war graffiti was chalked overnight around the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, angering Vietnam veterans and visitors paying respects to the nation?s war monuments. "Look at this, Jane Fonda's grand kids - damned peace nicks!" - Overheard from a passer-by.

  • The Monday morning following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th we see members of the National Guard wearing dust masks standing beneath the high columns of the Federal Hall, located at 26 Wall Street in New York City. It was the first capitol of the United States of America and the site of George Washington's first inauguration in 1789. It is also the place where the United States Bill of Rights was passed. To celebrate the near-return to financial normality, New Yorkers' spirit was proved intact by the hanging of US flags from buildings. Days after the historical events, security was prominent at all nationally symbolic institutions and buildings. As a show of force, it was also a clear deterrent for would-be criminals when New Yorkers felt vulnerable to further attack.

  • During a journey into America's hinterlands, days after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, crowds of New Yorkers gathered at barriers where streets were closed, near Ground Zero, to offer help for volunteers: Spare beds offered, free food distributed, and offers of salvation. A man here has a board urging prayer and revival for those feeling spiritually adrift. American flags hang from buildings and businessmen and tourists talk in the street with some wearing dust masks. In outpourings of grief, anger and patriotic rhetoric, flags were flown as never before as America sought to express their emotions and a unity. .

  • During a journey into America's hinterlands, days after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, the breaking news flashes from Fox TV's studios that there are expected to be no more survivors found at Ground Zero. The tragic message reads 'No Signs of Life' in large red letters, read by passers-by along the on the Avenue of the Americas on Manhattan. As the news travels across the building, the camera blurs other TV pictures of live broadcasts with a sense of urgency, speed and desperation in the fruitless search for life.

  • Vietnam memorial, Washington DC. Patriotic Americana - After 9/11. Vietnam memorial names and reflected visitor, Washington DC. In the week after the September 11th attacks, America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity. At dawn, a lone person pays their respects at the Vietnam Memorial wall in Washington DC...

A road journey of motifs and icons shot days after the chaos of 9/11. This essay is an extract of my experiences from New York and also Washington and Pennsylvania.

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