John Baldessari in his Santa Monica studio. Because some images took on different meanings
after Sept. 11, the conceptual artist replaced them in pieces he was working on. (RICHARD HARTOG / Los Angeles Times )
New York playwright Stephanie Fleischmann at home. Shaken by the attacks, she walked
around the city collecting images for a play about New York that she had been writing
before Sept. 11. (GARY FRIEDMAN / Los Angeles Times )
“Every pain has a geography,” says composer Osvaldo
Golijov, who stopped work on a piece about Jerusalem
and began one that draws on American influences. (JEFF ZELEVANSKY / For The Times)