Contributed by: Michael Jehn
Contributor's location on 9/11: Pittsburgh, PA
Contributed on: January 14, 2005



This is a pencil drawing depicting one of the jumpers. I believe he was an employee of Windows On the World, on the 107th floor of the North Tower. Merely shading the columns took about eight hours, despite the redundancy, but I considered it almost a gesture of respect, as if to say "Drawing this little person, this soon-to-be-extinguished life falling against the enormous, scaleless facades of the towers, was worth the many hours it took to create the image." It's a gesture of remembrance, and a reminder of the carnage that none of us should give ourselves the luxury of denying.

Cite as: Michael Jehn, Image #2718, The September 11 Digital Archive, 14 January 2005, <http://911digitalarchive.org/images/details/2718>.
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