"How could I just walk away?" The exhibition, with about 150 objects, artifacts and photographs, offers a cityscape of grief that includes battered fire helmets and caked rescue goggles, missing posters and singed office paper from the trade center.
Another model, the MA099, singed nearby paper in August.
For instance, just as I was despondently searching through the coffee-singed piles of paper thronging my desk in search of that one really important piece of paper, there pinged into my inbox this gem.
Mangled, singed and occasionally pristine, the papers offer hints about the lives of the unfortunate and the lucky.
His abstract geometric paintings in last spring's "Freestyle" at the Studio Museum in Harlem combined his two careers: their delicately tinted all-over grids were collages made from singed pieces of permanent-wave end papers, lined up edge to edge.
He worked in a beauty salon in South Central Los Angeles and so he collages his surfaces with delicately singed squares of hair-permanent end papers mixed with scraps of advertisements and billboard posters.
Mr. Bradford's grid is jittery and uneven, his predominent color is a choppy sky-blue, the singed edges of his applied end-papers could be taken for a charred mountain range.
The work featured in this piece, "Tree with Yellow Blossoms", which is a singed tree fashioned out of gunpowder and paper, was created as part of the Livestrong Stages Global Art Exhibition, an effort to raise funds and awareness for cancer research .It's a dialogue with the gunpowder and the sheet of paper.
The new works at the Hammer feel even more primeval: geological accretions of paper and paint webbed with lines and singed circles that, in works such as "Test 3," almost take on the feel of bullet holes.
It was singed and crumpled.
