Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html