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I'm thinking
"I don't know, but maybe once in a while we need to be disturbed and feel the horrors of life to appreciate the beauty when we see it."
On the same vein - maybe once in a while (possibly with a little more than one year's space between the horror and the presentation of emotionally charged memorial statues) - we need to be disturbed and feel the horrors of life in order to be able to remember, put our problems in perspective, and appreciate what sanity and comfort we experience in the moment of our own lives.
I'm thinking - could this possibly be the reason The Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. was so painstakingly created? Could this possibly be the reason we travel on "unknown to ourselves" pilgrimages to Dachau and Auschwitz and view the painful images in the statues that tribute the dead of that horrible holocaust? I do not mind at all the pain I feel as I look at those statues - it's the least I can feel - since I was fortunate enough to not suffer the way that generation of people did.
I think the tribute should be well done by talented artists - but who is picking them? The patron - as usual. The patron is not always full of artistic knowledge and the artist could be a fast talker (hmmmm, sounds likely).
I'm not at all familiar with this artist's work so I can't really criticise the statue. I think the fact that it was removed from the area it was displayed in says enough - the people most closely involved with the tragedy of September 11 cannot bear to look at it. It's too soon. I am glad they took it out.
Maybe some very talented artists will paint tributes or statues that merit the respect and emotional connection of the victims' families and the rest of us who will need to remember someday.
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