Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, New Yorker Meredith Bergmann found herself sculpting an allegorical figure of the city. September 11th---now on display at St. John the Divine---depicts a female nude as an emblem of endurance, strength, and force. While sculpting, Bergmann was influenced by images ranging from St. Sebastian pierced by arrows to St. Francis receiving the stigmata because of "the way the two buildings were pierced and the way the city and the country experienced a dark epiphany."
