"'Death By Drowning” is a term frequently used by coroners; it seemed very apropos the first few days after Katrina.  While we were displaced in Jackson, we heard on the news: about 20,000 body bags, thousands of people trapped in their homes, bodies floating upside down in the streets.  It also appeared to me to be the demise of a way of life, the lift I know as a child and young man in New Orleans.  I used the silhouette railing from a Victorian house to symbolize the destruction and damaged old architecture; the setting sun reflects a fading lifestyle unique to New Orleans; the body is self explanatory. 

But, perhaps this is a sunrise, the railing a new dawning for the city.  We must bury our dead above ground, heal our wounds and move on with hope."           By Rolland Golden