Weight of the World - Paper Passages
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In the midst of Hall and Brown’s project, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 took place. Both artists attend to grief and shock, on a national but also personal level. Hall mourns the loss of friends and colleagues in New York and receives news that her cancer has spread, again.
Hall created “Weight of the World” on September 29, 2001. Affixed to the corrugated cardboard cover are weights of all shapes and sizes. The text reads:
I feel the weight of the world.or is it the extra weight from chemo
on my belly and face
or my daughter’s dilemmas
that weight me down?
It is the weight of the world
that makes me so sad.