A quick poll

**Gaffer** · Sep 19th, 2002, 08:27 AM

Do any of you think it would be sick of me to suggest that a memorial should be constructed for commemorate 9/11 - a statue of a woman falling to her death?

**Gaffer** · Sep 19th, 2002, 08:34 AM

5 views, no reponse... OK, how about this then...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ue_1&printer=1

"We apologize if anyone was upset or offended by the display of this sculpture. It was certainly not our intent"...

Duh!!!

**Wally Pipp** · Sep 19th, 2002, 08:43 AM

difficult territory here gaffs. It's forget vs remember. Not an easy choice.

**Gaffer** · Sep 19th, 2002, 09:18 AM

Well, they seem to want to remember, so lets discuss.

Building a memorial seems pretty apt for the occassion - building a statue of a woman falling to her death is either a chronically ironic statement, or pure idiocy...

**Suidae** · Sep 19th, 2002, 09:37 AM

Originally posted by Gaffer
Well, they seem to want to remember, so lets discuss.

Building a memorial seems pretty apt for the occassion - building a statue of a woman falling to her death is either a chronically ironic statement, or pure idiocy...

I'm all for remembering but the "falling woman at the moment of impact" statue was a bit over the edge. If the artist's sister was raped would they create a bronze statue of her medical exam?

**Gaffer** · Sep 19th, 2002, 09:49 AM

exactly. And I wonder how the conversation fro the spec occurred

Commitee: So Mt Ariist we ant to commomorate this heinous act
Artist: OK, consier ti done
...6 months later
Artist: taDAAA!!! Here it is.. is a woman about to smack into the ground after falling 99 stories
Committe: GrrrEAT! lets use it....

Did any one of the comittee that approve this not think to themselves "Errr, hang on, that looks a wee bit sick to me...."

**static33** · Sep 19th, 2002, 01:06 PM

If she is to "commemorate those who jumped or fell to their deaths from the World Trade Center", why is she naked?

**Wally Pipp** · Sep 19th, 2002, 01:27 PM

I think that the remnants that still stood up right should've been preserved, cast in bronze or whatever and turned into a monument. God knows where they are now ...

**Suidae** · Sep 19th, 2002, 03:34 PM

Originally posted by Wally Pipp
I think that the remnants that still stood up right should've been preserved, cast in bronze or whatever and turned into a monument. God knows where they are now ...

The Discovery Channel ran a special on a firm that was present during the entire clean up phase. They decided what would be kept and moved it out to a storage facility at JFK airport. It was quite interesting what made it through undamaged. They also have the portion of the building you are talking about but had to cut into pieces so it could be moved.

**Bonker Gudd** · Sep 19th, 2002, 05:55 PM

They should create a nice garden at ground-zero with lots of herbs and geraniums and stuff

**rinoaheartilly** · Sep 19th, 2002, 07:25 PM

Originally posted by Bonker Gudd
They should create a nice garden at ground-zero with lots of herbs and geraniums and stuff

**static33** · Sep 20th, 2002, 01:54 AM

Can any one tell me, If she is to "commemorate those who jumped or fell to their deaths from the World Trade Center", why is she naked?

**tr0n** · Sep 20th, 2002, 05:16 AM

Originally posted by Bonker Gudd
They should create a nice garden at ground-zero with lots of herbs and geraniums and stuff

that's what i think they should do too. a nice place where there's lots of life.

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