Seventeen Grand Narratives for a new Grand Canyon was edited from footage shot over a three week period in early 2003 at the location the media has embedded into everyone's mind as 'Ground Zero', that being lower Manhattan at the World Trade Center site. While wishing to avoid making a work explicitly referencing the 9/11 tragedy it was interesting to witness the peculiar tourist activities at my front door. One such activity was the obsession with filming 'what wasn't there'- the empty air where the towers stood. It seemed that people from around the globe were busy creating their own 'grand narratives', even as the bureaucratic powers that be continue to haggle over, with no end in site, the final outcome of this man-made crater.