Introduction My maternal grandparents carried on a two-year courtship correspondence between 1915 and 1917, by which time they had married. Roma Belle Mattison and Frederick Benjamin Winter met in Portsmouth, Ohio on May 23, 1915 at “the Edison concert.” She would be 27 in a month, he was 42. Concert going was a popular pastime. …
Design for Nelson Mandela Memorial competition, January 2015
Images by Markus Lui. About the design process. As with the World Trade Center 9/11 Memorial design, the design ideas for a Nelson Mandela Memorial to be located at Skylawn Memorial Park in San Mateo, just came to me. And it shares some elements of the Ground Zero memorial design. The requirements were that it …
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Design for the 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero, June 2003
Designs for the 9/11 Memorial had to be submitted on poster board, only three images were allowed. The design process. I don’t know what possessed me to do it, but I submitted a design for the World Trade Center 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero. I have never designed anything beyond placement of furniture in my …
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Poem: Effervescence
It’s 1951. I'm eight. The final curtain has fallen on that night’s production of “Pygmalion.” My dad played Col. Pickering. He has washed off the greasepaint and said his goodbyes. Driving home over Martha's Vineyard's country roads, The balmy summer midnight is too delicious to ignore. At Oak Bluffs public beach, my parents swim naked. …
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