It would be premature—even presumptuous—to claim that after a half a year, we can select works which show the effects of 9/11 on young people. Instead, they have offered to share their first reactions—the immediate "ohhh" as you catch yourself from falling. The exhibition is full of that will to cry out, catch hold, stand up, and set off again. But beyond that survival, there is a kind of imagination, informed, but not scarred, by the events of September 11th. It is an imagination that is very much alive, but newly respectful, deliberate, and shared.

	Willa Beckman, PS 234, Manhattan
	Codie Eisenberg, Onteora High School, Boiceville, NY
	Martha Ferguson, Martin Van Buren High School, Queens
	Laura Krug with Abigail Deutsch, Stuyvesant High School, Manhattan
	Adam Saul, PS 234, Manhattan
	Matthew Steinberg, Age 18, LaGuardia High School, Manhattan
	Matthew Steinberg, Age 18, LaGuardia High School, Manhattan