Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Press Release



- PRESS RELEASE -               

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Dust Glyphs Project               
Tiburon, CA 94920  
                                    
Press Contact Information:
Jihan McDonald, Project Manager
Dust Glyphs: The Book Project Uses Kickstarter Campaign to Reveal Previously Unknown Images from Ground Zero

“These ephemeral markings that Jim has collected catch a moment in time that was erased with the first rains.  At the same time they record the grief, shock, and the anger that still remain with us.  They are an important piece of history and we are all very grateful to him for preserving these fragile, heartfelt proto-poems from oblivion.” - Dr. Jeremy Taylor, co-founder of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and blogger for Psychology Today.  

San Francisco, CA July 26, 2011- Dust Glyphs: The Book Project has launched its Kickstarter campaign to publish a book of previously unseen messages written by first responders in the dust formed by the burnt ash of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York City on September 11, 2001.  
The photos were taken by Jim McGovern between September 20,2001 and February 25, 2002 while he was on assignment as a restoration expert for a San Francisco, CA based global insurance and claims management company.  The messages were written all along the walls and windows that remained at and around the World Trade Center site, particularly at the neighborhood bar dubbed “Ground Zero Bar” by USA Today where the first responders mourned and worried over the fates of their missing comrades.

Jim unearthed the photos in his files roughly three months ago and dubbed them “dust-glyphs”- fragile messages washed away by weather, time, and memory. These photos are the only known records of these messages in the dust.  The Dust Glyphs Project needs help to identify the authors of these lost messages and to learn to more about the people they are linked to.

The Dust Glyphs Kickstarter campaign ends August 18, 2011.  To get an inside look at the dust-glyphs, arrange an interview with Jim McGovern, and/or request reproduction permission please contact the Project Manager. New York City Firehouses can request a dust glyph print at dustglyphsproject@gmail.com.  The project email address can also be used to ask questions or submit information that can help the project succeed in its intentions.  

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