Posted by Another Competitor on October 17, 2003 at 23:05:10:In Reply to: Re: FIRST and LAST IMPRESSIONS posted by Jan Orfe on October 17, 2003 at 11:40:48:
A Critique:
1. Objection: Asked and Answered.
“What memorial vision do you think best commemorates the true meaning of 9/11?” AND…
“What exactly is it you believe this memorial SHOULD commemorate?”
2. Objection: Blatant Electioneering.
a. Rhetorical device: Pretend you are a juror.
b. Free yourself of bias.
c. The public is watching!
d. The entrants are watching!
e. One submission is best.
f. The best is best because it follows your rules.
g. Even though many answers are valid.
h. You must follow your own rules.
i. Reminder…Here is your opening statement.
j. Rhetorical Question: Should we disregard your opening statement?
k. (Asked and Answered)
l. Plus, I’ll be disappointed if you let anyone get away with that.
m. Because you will have fallen short of your own mission.
n. Harangue
o. Harangue, and if not, second best is all we’ll get.3. Objection: Freudian Slip (or should I say... Jungian)
I quote:
“…if the attack upon the United States of America - unequivocally, an attack upon FREEDOM itself - is NOT esteemed to be the pit's preeminent symbolic message for now and for future generations…”
Restated:
The pit’s symbolic message is that the attack was an attack upon freedom.
4. Summation.
Combine the quote above with Libeskind’s rhetoric about the exposed slurry wall feature of the pit:
“The great slurry walls… …withstood the unimaginable trauma of the destruction and stand as eloquent as the Constitution itself asserting the durability of Democracy and the value of individual life.”
And it becomes clear that the symbolic memorial does not need to embody the “principles of freedom and ideals of democracy” because the memorial context already does that.
This frees the symbolic memorial to “convey the magnitude of personal and physical loss” and “inspire and engage people,” as well as embody other guiding principals set out in the memorial program.
Doing otherwise risks redundancy, unless the designer specifically proposed alterations to the memorial context to eliminate redundant and therefore contradictory and confusing multiple metaphors. (i.e. elimination of the exposed slurry wall.)
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