Walid Raad
Cotton Under My Feet, 2007

Artwork Info

Artwork title
Cotton Under My Feet
Artist name
Walid Raad
Date created
2007
Classification
print
Medium
inkjet prints
Dimensions
9 13/16 × 12 3/8 in. (24.9 × 31.5 cm)
Date acquired
2012
Credit
Collection SFMOMA
Accessions Committee Fund purchase
Copyright
© Walid Raad
Permanent URL
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2012.216.1-96
Artwork status
Not on view at this time.

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Into the blue with Raad

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NARRATOR: The day was September 11th, 2001. The world looked on in shock as the Manhattan skyline filled with smoke and ash. In the days, then years, that followed, artist Walid Raad noticed something peculiar about what eyewitnesses said about that horrific day. They recalled one detail in particular—the beautiful blue of the sky. 

 

SFX: Ethereal music, slow, dreamy 

 

NARRATOR: How would you pin down a color that you can only dimly recall, from a day when so many other things happened? 

  

SFX: More of the music 

  

NARRATOR: Raad says that he can’t remember the exact color of the sky on that September day, but each of these ninety-six shades represents a possibility. 

  

SFX: More of the music 

  

NARRATOR: “For some reason,” Raad wrote, “I needed to see that blue again.”  

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