Title: Hostage _ The Bachar Polaroids
Attributed date: 2000
Attributed to: Souheil Bachar
Production date: 2011

During his ten-year captivity in Lebanon, Souheil Bachar was photographed over 20 times by his captors. From time to time, his captors would leave him some of the Polaroids they deemed unfit to release to the local and international press. In these images, and for some unknown reason, his body and face were always cut out. With the few brushes and colors available to him in his cell, Bachar decided to fill himself in. 

Title: Cotton under my Feet
Attributed date: 2007

For months after 9/11, I could not remember the color of the sky over New York on that day. For some reason, I needed to see that blue again, desperately looking for it in photo and video archives, and on color swatches in paint stores.

Over time, I forgot about the sky.  That is, until the beginning of various terrorist-related trials a few years later.  I was taken aback that almost every prosecutor and defense attorney in the US began their respective opening statements with lengthy descriptions of the clear blue sky on 9/11.

I still cannot remember the exact color of the sky on that fateful September day, but the trials in Seattle, Portland, Detroit, and Alexandria have helped me narrow it down to ninety-six shades of blue.