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Hope Buzzelli showcases surrealist paintings at the 3 World Trade Center gallery to honor her father's survival of 9/11.

Hope Buzzelli has established a gallery on the 69th floor of 3 World Trade Center, featuring surrealist paintings that reflect her family's experience of the September 11 attacks. Her father, Pasquale Buzzelli, was a Port Authority engineer who survived the collapse of the North Tower while working on the 64th floor.

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After the building collapsed, firefighters carried Pasquale Buzzelli out of the rubble and into an ambulance. He contacted his wife, Louise Buzzelli, immediately upon being rescued. Hope Buzzelli grew up in the shadow of the 9/11 tragedy and began expressing her emotions through art as a child. She drafted the cover of the family book, "We All Fall Down," which she wrote with her father. She has since held more than a dozen exhibitions in New York City. Her work uses ballpoint pen and colored pencil to create dreamlike aquatic worlds. The gallery space serves as a symbol of resilience for the Buzzelli family, located near the site where her father survived the collapse.

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