Comments on: Legislature approves Sept. 11 monument changes

By: Mike Mack

Mike Mack — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:51:58 +0000

Many inscriptions are false and have political overtones and have nothing to do with memorializing those who lost lives. This was Janet Napolitano’s memorial. 70% of those polled thought it needed to be changed and was offensive. Thomas…. John was just re-elected and rightly so.
Members of the Memorial had their own agenda put onto this Memorial.
Do you think a 9-11 memorial should tell lies about our military and quote Bin Laden …well this thing did.

By: ID

ID — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:25:30 +0000

Concept, Development, Execution are the three basic phases of creating public art.
At any stage a lack of diligence will produce a less than satisfactory result.

If one wishes to argue that this particular exercise in creativity is altogether satisfactory, then one is faced with accepting the premise that it was the idea of the artist that a memorial to 9/11 should be a source of continuing conflict, rather than a respectful remembrance of those whose lives were taken.

Only the artists could attest to the formative idea of this work. If they don’t agree with the above it would be illuminating to hear how they believed a collection of factual statements and conflicting sentiments would meld into an experience of consolation or redemption.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:29:31 +0000

“He says it’s intended to remove inscriptions that are offensive…” I find Kavanagh’s actions offensive, voters should remove him rather than change the monument.