A New York artist has created a downtown healing space to allow fellow New Yorkers to figuratively rebuild Lower Manhattan and the Twin Towers with blocks decorated with reflections and memories of September 11th. NY1's Arts reporter Stephanie Simon filed the following report.

At the Educational Alliance on the Lower East Side, abut a mile from the site of the World Trade Center, artist Tobi Kahn lights memorial candles to turn the gallery into a meditative healing space. His 9/11 memorial installation, called "Embodied Light," is not just about reflecting, but about rebuilding.

Kahn gave out wooden blocks to New Yorkers and asked them to put their thoughts and memories on the block.

"And I felt they were like building blocks, so they could feel a way of rebuilding the city," says Kahn.

There are 220 blocks in all, one for each of the 110 floors in each tower.

"I love this one, it says 'We' on it. It's all about all of us together as a group. Another person did something I thought was so powerful, he burned the block," says Kahn. "Other people did blocks in memory of people they knew who had died there. Another person, he conceptually took the block, which is inside, and he took a cardboard block and cut it up and made it look like a block exploding."

The blocks are not only to be admired, but viewers are supposed to use them to rebuild a "new city."

"That's true and what I hoped happened is we put another table here and I hope people will pick them up read them and start making their own narratives. and you see as I change them around it become a whole other installation

The exhibit also includes memorial lights and shrines and an imagined view of the city from the World Trade Center, where Kahn often went was a child with his father.

Anyone can build and create their own blocks and submit photos of them through the exhibit’s Facebook page. Kahn says the blocks are simple, even childlike, but embody the power to build.