Hole in the Sky

An excerpt from a now deleted blog post from Juliana on her official site in 2008:

I’m referring simultaneously to the void left by the downing of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, and the hole in the ozone layer. The two are related, in my mind; in both cases, man is the destructive force.

The title of the song came from my mother. She had been to visit the scene of the former World Trade Center in NYC — what they were calling “Ground Zero” — some months after the attacks. I myself had not been to see the site since it had happened. (I still haven’t.) I asked my mother, “What was it like, being there?” and she answered, “There was just this big hole in the sky.” Wow, I thought. What an image. What a perfect, poetic description. And I took it from there.