Posted by Jan Orfe on October 12, 2003 at 09:57:41:In Reply to: Re: Odds and Ends posted by Jan Orfe on October 08, 2003 at 10:47:41:
I was tempted to respond to my OWN
response, just so I could have someone to
talk to! -That's how mind-numbing this
endless wait for jury selection news has
become up here in the Berkshires. Can you believe (aside from my two editorials in our local paper) there hasn't been a single letter to the Editor about the
rebuilding of Ground Zero or the current
memorial competition? In over 2 years?? Not even a reply to the pieces I wrote. Surely, I must have said something stupid
to warrant a rebuttal. Folks, I've got a great idea: Starting NOW, all 5,200 of us go public with our designs. That's right.
Start spilling your guts and don't finish
until you've revealed every square foot of your heartfelt vision. Put the press on speed dial. Name names if you have to. Whatever it takes, to cleanse your system
of this senseless gag order that has us
kicking our family pets for no apparent
reason. You own a goldfish, what can I say? You want senseless? Here's the neat part: We ALL get disqualified. No one wins. Now wouldn't that be a hoot. The jury then has no choice but to break their own rules (see Guidelines, page 22). Or? Or hold a brand new competition. Now there's a dealbreaker if we ever needed one. Because having called their bluff, we force the LMDC to prepare an updated set of meaningful guidelines, so that every entrant is on the same page and has an equal playing field. Is the
memorial pit 4.5 acres, or 4.7? I think
it matters a lot, the actual dimensions
of Libeskind's site plan, don't you? A concept is all well and good, knowing
the details will be hammered out in Phase II. But as it stands, our fate is in the hands of 13 jurors who WILL keep the waterfall in tact IF a particular design
incorporates it convincingly, but who also will eliminate that same waterfall IF it does NOT suit the winning design.
What the hell does that mean? Did not
Mr. Libeskind create his waterfall for
any number of valid reasons, least of
which was to have it become a memorial ground football? I like the waterfall. It's appeal to me was magnetic. I could not envision an inspiring design without it. Someone else, however, just because
they felt the Liberty Wall was their
piece de resistance for creating "an
original and powerful statement of enduring and universal symbolism", what?
the jury has no cause then, to keep the waterfall where it is? Am I understanding
the utter absurdity of who decides what and when and where the minutia of this selection process is going to end up? Or am I missing something here (other than someone to talk to)?Hello, anybody???? Orfe
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