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Morning rush hour, summer, 1993. Workers swarmed up escalators from underground commuter trains. I stood behind, capturing video, engrossed in the rhythm of the many rows of escalators delivering hundreds of commuters to street level. Later, I captured photographs from a video monitor, focusing on gestures of hands as they held and detached from the escalator, moving toward the towers or nearby financial district. In light of the towers’ later collapse, these captures have gained poignancy.

photographs mounted on archival paper and museum board