Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kit McChesney wrote: > > Don wrote: > > "My suggestion would be to line up 500 coffins in Grand Central Station > instead of harassing the bodies of the dead and their families." > > Don-- > > This is a great idea, and something that would be a perfect project for a > performance artist. If there were a monument built to demonstrate in some > graphic way--with symbolic caskets--how many had died. In fact, this is what > artists and journalists are for. Their work can mirror back to people what > is really happening, what is difficult to see otherwise. > > The emotional impact of the Vietnam memorial comes to mind. The only problem > with that memorial, powerful though it is, is that it came too late. There > should have been a memorial with names written on it WHILE the war was going > on. Maybe if people had been able to see how many were dying while it was > happening, public opinion--which hasn't changed yet because the casualties > haven't mounted high enough to shock them into reality--would change and we > could stop the madness. > > Kit I can only think of the memorial in the Oklahoma devastation in which they used chairs to represent the dead. I hope I got that right. And an interesting choice I'm sure the idea of coffins come up but they passed it up for chairs. Their reasoning being?.... I guess i can think of a few. Mainly I'd think they were just going for a less obvious but hopefully more effective approach. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html