When Suse Lowenstein's beloved son Alex was murdered in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland, she leaned on her art, sculpting herself and 75 fellow mothers "stripped naked" and in the emotional position, they fell upon hearing the news. The resultant sculpture garden "Dark Elegy" now resides in the garden of Suse's Montauk, New York home. As the 73-year-old Suse grapples with a gravely ill husband and her own advancing age, she must determine the fate of this controversial memorial to the victims of a brutal attack that altered American history. Seat 20D is a poetic exploration of how art cradled a mother's soul and touches all who view it. Every time someone is murdered in an act of terrorism, we all die a little.
—Seagull Ink