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	<title>Butterflies of Memory &#187; Backstory</title>
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		<title>Enter the Drawing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Griffin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The architecture takes it a step further, it is the container that holds how that motion plays out. A great building rarely seems to forget its drawing.&#8221; – Kathleen Griffin Earlier this month, I met with with Rick Bell and Julie Trébault of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, We Keep Moving Forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Griffin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this is the hell or high water mark, where time is crunching and stakes are raising and winning is not enough. The project is moving faster and gaining steam, I have a series of fantastic new team members and planners. Amazing foundations are actually seeking me out, to become part of the project. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The City Rises</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Griffin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Of course, we are people who ride in steel boxes daily, where the smell of our humanity is not uncommon to us&#8230; you are the city that inspires me. You rise to everything that meets you.&#8221; – Kathleen Griffin                                   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only Forward, Like the Shark</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Griffin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I have a saying in these meetings, &#8216;only forward, like the Shark.&#8217;” – Kathleen Griffin I am sitting across a desk at Skyscraper, watching Charles Connelly, Jr. He has been on the phone with Canada for an hour, finding us the right sized steel part to conform the the current engineering drawings and making sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step Two: Do a Lot of Bad Drawings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Griffin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This piece lingers in a border space, something that is real and yet still feels like you are only seeing it and then finishing it or making it real in your head. Like a piece of poetry made real, crystallizing for a minute.&#8221; I began drawing butterflies about six years ago. They just started popping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Griffin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Preliminary drawing by Kathleen Griffin &#8220;An image in time, an experience, a moment that flickers so brightly that it cannot last.&#8221; &#160; The Plan “The Butterflies of Memory” is a temporary public sculpture on the site of the collapsed Smallpox Hospital Ruins on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan. Seventeen giant gold butterflies, each thirteen feet in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preliminary 3D Rendering</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Griffin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 3D rendering of “Butterflies of Memory”, based on the initial drawn concept.]]></description>
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		<title>The Ruins</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Griffin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s how it starts: It’s February 2009. I’m driving down the FDR for the billionth time in my life, feeling sad and overwhelmed. I’m broke and living in a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Astoria, using my living room as a studio. I had come two months before to New York with a plan, and with [...]]]></description>
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