Remembering September 11 Through an Immigrant Artist’s Eyes

Young-Il Ahn, Memorial to Sept. 11 A 01, 2001.
September 2001 started out as an auspicious time for the Korean-born artist Young-Il Ahn. Having moved to Los Angeles in the mid 1960s, he’d settled in there, and established his practice as a painter, managing to get by on selling his ethereal abstractions, and have time to pursue his other passions, like playing the clarinet. He was in his mid-60s, and comfortable. On September 9, he got married. Then came the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
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