Premonition of the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
 

When I got this premonition, I didn't realize what I was getting.  It seemed to me I was doing a drawing of someone flying around New York City like in the super cartoons.  My apologies for calling it New York Sky Dancer, but I didn't realize until I had the hundred percent hindsight what this was.  It was only a couple of months ago that I got the courage or the sense that I had to do this, to put this on the site for what it is, another "premonition", or drawing of the future.

I wish I could have had the presence of mind back then to realize what I was drawing.  I thought it was another sort of semi abstract sketch, like the typical ethereal-esoteric combination one would see in the stuff done by, say, Marc Chagall.  But it's all there in a montage-like composite: the view of the cloud of debris as seen from midtown Manhattan, just about past the RCA building or something, past the Village and Chinatown. 

In the top you can see the square shape of the towers drawn as lines and lightning bolts symbolizing the impact of something, when I was drawing it, I thought I was drawing a pair of stripy socks on a person, but they are fuselages of large aircraft moving at speed and impacting.  Two of them, with the tail sections visible as if in stop action.

Three stripy cylindrical shapes tally the aircraft that struck targets, in perspective, the smallest indicating far away.  The fourth indicating the crash in Pennsylvania.  The person in the center is not flying after all, but is falling.

The trade center should never have been built.  It appears that many original shop owners in the area were removed against their will, forcibly, in a way, and inadequately compensated for their properties, if at all.  They didn't know they were on a huge subterranean block of granite.  This is just what certain opportunists need to turn a small acreage of land into extreme profitability by adding an upward and downward third dimension to the property, multiplying the prospect of rental or whatever they intend to do to profit from the land.

I and perhaps others are trying to make the case that human beings are not capable of such enterprises without risk of extreme mishap.  I have designed tall buildings myself but in my efforts I see a need for much more geometry in the structure, such as the pyrimidical geometry.  The geometry reflects the aspects of the situation, such as a rotating streamlined and armored house in hurricane-prone areas, floating and extremely structurally moored houses in flood planes, and pyrimidical inclines in tall structures that can in fact withstand tidal and aeolian stress or even the impact of a fully fuelled jumbo jet up top and a truck bomb blast in the parking basements.  Aspiring designs, but maybe not doable by humans.  If so, we have to be honest and ban or discourage the practice of pride in constructing monumentally high buildings.

This tragedy could also have been averted if American and British foreign policy during the 20th century had seen to it that the public in oil-rich areas of the Middle East that were being exploited by American and British and other oil concerns were also adequately compensated especially back in the 1950's through the 1980's, as there was hunger and starvation in that part of the world in spite of the wealth of their natural resources.  The children grew up with protein malnutrition and parts of their minds were stunted as a result, including parts of the frontal lobe that govern restraint and rationale in a human individual.

The drawing was done long before the World Trade Center was built and I quickly forgot about it, not even realizing what it was.  It was only years after my world travels that it slowly dawned on me that I had done artwork back then that had predicted the future.  In America, we are quickly distracted by the opulence and the way of life, and are often blinded to the propensity of the natural gifts we all come into this world with.  It is only with an attitude of contrition that we can begin to comprehend.

Using different combinations of digital filters, the drawing can be seen in different ways to gain a different perspective in the premonition.  As you look through this series, different aspects of the situation will come to light.

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Collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers, drawn 34 years before it happened.

 Copyright (c) 2005 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.

When I got this premonition, I didn't realize what I was getting.

05 February, 2005