There is a message in the Destruction of the Tower --- it's Tarot Card # XVI which depicts the flaming tower and falling people from it.

Fischl's work is raising the ire of so many who seem afraid of symbolism. Yet no doubt this same crowd were glued to the ostentatious INFOtainment show last week that preyed on their emotions for financial and political gain. I tuned the whole thing out disgusted by it.

Also I’ve read too many ridiculous complaints about the sculpture that condemn nudity as obscene. One really has to wonder about the emotional maturity of somebody who’s afraid of the human figure. BTW this is representational, not real, drawn from imagination – not a documentary photograph.

Populations would be better served if ART education replaces religion. Art embraces symbolism for what it is an expression of archetypal myths. There is always room for ritual in the making and presentation of art.

Symbolism is the language of the subconscious and ART is the expression of dreams.

Religions on the other hand brainwashes cultures into hating the other so much so that often these political action groups endorse murder and slavery rather then reveal that they are dealers in superstitious hot air.

You can only look at so many pictures of flowers, landscapes, fawns and lovers before you grow bored. Those pictures are never as moving, powerful, etc. as depictions of suffering and violence, devotion and martyrdom. Anyway, nice, positive, life-affirming art doesn't go over well with the critics.

(It's a fine piece, reminescent of Rodin. 13 months ago, nobody would have given it a second thought.)

[ September 21, 2002: Message edited by: nonesuch ]

Damien Hirst recants

I wish he wasn't forced by PC'ism since the WTC was quite a work of performance art indeed.

Yes of course the event was a disaster for NY what troubles me so much is that the Gun Culture driven by the NRA in the USA is incapable of accepting personal responsibility for WTC implosion.

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Didn't a German artist, whose name escapes me, make similar remarks right after 9/11?

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You're thinking of the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, I reckon.

He was widely quoted as saying that the WTC destruction was "the greatest work of art." But according to Louis Menand in the New Yorker, Stockhausen said it was the greatest work of art created by the Devil.

They wanted a spectacle; they wanted on to American TV; they got their wish. For a serious artist, I'd say that's aiming pretty low.

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Yes of course the event was a disaster for NY what troubles me so much is that the Gun Culture driven by the NRA in the USA is
incapable of accepting personal responsibility for WTC implosion.

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Salt in the wound is what it looks like.

Is that the same personal responsibility that the War Culture driven by tribes in Afganistan are incapable of accepting for the 500 pounders dropped on them?

Essentially we have to change our greedy ways.

It's not right that 3 billion + people on earth don't have access to clean water or electricity.

Earth's natural resources can't support 6 billion + driving cars.

Consumption is not our exclusive domain.

I agree With Canada's PM --- we in the West humiliate the poor.

What a sad thing that some are so afraid of their imagination’s dark corners that they succumb to hysteria over a work of fiction.

People could live fear free lives if they would explore and confront the images that haunt the sub conscious.

Art experience can induce epiphany the state of transcendental euphoria for those willing to let go and enjoy.

Art’s aim is ecstasy is the perceiver.

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Does having imaginary friends equal something?

Life is what one makes of it as we each write, produce and act out our personal scripts.

Religions are businesses selling real estate in never never land. Sadly each one sets itself up against the others perpetuating hatred.

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Religions are businesses selling real estate in never never land. Sadly each one sets itself up against the others perpetuating hatred.

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Too many teachers in public education are there because of seniority not competence in a field.

For too long have the emotionally immature imposed through violence their private hallucinations and imaginary friends.