Barbara Trauth was inspired by the beauty around her when choosing paintings and sculptures to be featured at several Cincinnati Flower Show events last April.

        Now, the Hyde Park artist is moved by something darker — the events of Sept. 11.

        “I didn't do a lot in the fall. I had a good friend who was ill and I felt scattered after Sept. 11. But I knew at the beginning of the new year that I'd have to do a memorial of some kind . . . to bring out my own feelings about it.”

        Last week, she surrounded herself with newspapers saved from the days following the bombings and found the pain was still very fresh.

        “I was amazed when I went through the papers at the emotions it still brought up — it was like a stab in the heart.”

        She's done several sculptures in the past connected to war and struggles of people in Bosnia and Somalia, “but this is something so much more personal since it happened in our midst.”

        She's thinking of something abstract in ceramic and metal, probably no bigger than 3-feet square.

        “I will probably try to incorporate the towers with an abstract of Christ somehow in the middle with all those people who've died.

        “I feel like ever single one of those lives lost had such meaning.

        “I was reading a story about one woman who had just done a video for her church about always being ready to die. And her part was the angel greeting people as they came to heaven.

        “I just want to memorialize all those people.

        “It's hard to get started on it, but I would feel unfinished if I didn't do it.”

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