PALE MALE: A Pilgrimage

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Roz Dimon
2007
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DIMONscape® which has been acquired by the 9/11 Memorial Museum for its permanent collection in 2013.
The first print in the edition was acquired for The Metropolitan Museum by Curator of European Paintings, Walter Liedtke in 2008.

Roz Dimon
13 April 2007

Pre 9/11, I worked at The World Trade Center complex and lived nearby for over a decade.
Watching the towers fall and our lives changed, was the beginning of a spiritual journey and major creative shift in my work. Pondering an exhibition of Byzantine Icons at The Metropolitan Museum in 2004, I discovered that icons were understood to be “the strength, shelter, consolation and spiritual reinforcement of a nation which was in danger and later in bondage.” Contemplating this multi-layered process where technique and spirit combine, brought a new light and purpose to my work. I discovered a way to translate this methodology and practice into contemporary media. I called this new work a DIMONscape®
The title, Pale Male, references the story of the famous hawk who made his home in a balcony window in a luxury New York City apartment complex, and also centers around the words "Love One Another". Smithsonian editor-at-large Paul Trachtman wrote that the work represented a new dimension in the artistic landscape - connecting the old with the new, the digital with the spiritual and the real with the virtual.
It also connected me back to the world with new life and purpose; a form of resurrection.

Roz Dimon
13 April 2007
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2007
Roz Dimon