A paragraph on Page 3 of a NY Times online story, concerning the impracticality of the WTC memorial designs, has this exact juxtaposition of text and image (may require refresh because they shuffle the ads):
The Suspending Memory design has a bridge connecting the two memorial islands that is so narrow as currently conceived that it might become overcrowded, said Paul Buckhurst, who teaches at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University...
Catty Maureen Dowd is all over the 8 design finalists (I guess she missed the "Suspending Mammary" design):
"The designs are horribly, horribly bland," mourned Eric Gibson in The Wall Street Journal.
The ugliness of Al Qaeda's vicious blow to America is obscured by these prettified designs, which look oddly like spas or fancy malls or aromatherapy centers. It's easy to visualize toned women with yoga mats strolling through these New Age pavilions filled with waterfalls and floating trees and sunken gardens and suspended votives. Mass murder dulled by architectural Musak.
The designs are reflections of our psychobabble culture, exuding that horrible and impossible concept, closure. Our grief and anger have been sentimentalized and stripped of a larger historical and moral purpose.
Even the names of the models sound like books by Deepak Chopra and Marianne Williamson: "Garden of Lights," "Inversion of Light," "Votives in Suspension," "Suspending Memory," "Reflecting Absence," "Passages of Light: The Memorial Cloud." All ambient light and transient emotion — nothing raw or harsh or rough on which the heart and mind can collide.
Suddenly, overcrowding doesn't seem like such a bad prospect.
I dunno...looks kind of uncomfortable.
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A paragraph on Page 3 of a NY Times online story, concerning the impracticality of the WTC memorial designs, has this exact juxtaposition of text and image (may require refresh because they shuffle the ads):
The Suspending Memory design has a bridge connecting the two memorial islands that is so narrow as currently conceived that it might become overcrowded, said Paul Buckhurst, who teaches at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University...
- tom moody 11-29-2003 11:13 pm
Catty Maureen Dowd is all over the 8 design finalists (I guess she missed the "Suspending Mammary" design):
- tom moody 11-30-2003 11:41 pm
Suddenly, overcrowding doesn't seem like such a bad prospect.
- franklin (guest) 12-03-2003 2:48 am
I dunno...looks kind of uncomfortable.
- sally mckay 12-03-2003 6:46 am
- anonymous (guest) 4-14-2004 6:37 pm