The Sun Still Shines
on New York

3-D serigraph on museum board,
10.25" x 6.5", limited edition of 350, 2006

The "Sun Still Shines on New York" is Charles FazzinoŽs vision of the city in the not-so-distant future, featuring the bold new Freedom Tower. The Tower and the artwork celebrate the rebirth of New York after the horrors of 9/11. After meeting Fazzino at a gallery show in Germany and seeing this piece, Dr. Ute von der Heyde, a collector, sent him the poem above that she wrote as a personal reaction to the plans for the new Freedom Tower. She thought the words accurately reflected the art, and kindly gave Fazzino permission to reprint them here.

Freedom Tower

A new 541 meter high creation will open
its doors for us in 2012.
Its name sounds as if I could sense
the "Spirit of Freedom" through the air.
The slender and light tower
might touch the clouds
and its top could pitch them
for a clearer look into space.
Its skyline remember me on a slim pyramid
as a sign for our 21st century understanding.
The new "Prince of Towers"
will be a modest appearance
and it might bend with the wind of change
and not against it.

Sure, IŽll never forget my dinner
on the 107th floor of its ancestor
and my wish to dine there again
above all clouds of hate
only with you.
IŽll open my heart wide
to the newborn sign of freedom
and can imagine a sea of roses
around its ground.
Roses with the same name
"Spirit of Freedom."

- by Dr. Ute von der Heyde -