[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Priceless!

[evolved_rage]

Why did they hire an artist from Miama?

Probably to avoid the homo-erotic drivel of the SF Bay, ahem, artists.

[lowbridge]

publik skrul ejumacashun

[Riley]

"The importance of this work is that it is supposed to unite people," Alquilar said. "They are denigrating my work and the purpose of this work."

Ah, but we may well end up being united in denigrating your work.

[rit]

This obnehead lives in a Keryr wrold.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

wuz id owtsorsed?

[caisson71]

But, I'll bet the mural does not have the word "God" in it. And, anybody should know that "true artisians" don't concern themselves with details like spelling. I'll bet she would be concerned with a little detail like her name misspelled on her check or the decimal inproperly placed before the zeros on the check.

[Nick Danger]

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.

[BykrBayb]

AlQuedalar should be fixing the mistakes at her own expense.

[savedbygrace]

Surely there's at least one FReeper close by with a camera who could post some pix of this.

[Veto!]

There were plenty of people around during the installation who could and should have seen the missing and misplaced letters,

I have to agree with her. Anyone who hires artists has to check their lettering very closely. It's a given in the publishing world. Artists should never be expected to spell right, as they rarely do. It just isn't on their job description. The real question is why didn't the library officials catch the errors right away?

[bjmorris]

I would love to have seen this artists response if they had misspelled her name in the promotional pieces. I would have done it on purpose just to make a point.

[RedMonqey]

. "The mistakes wouldn't even register with a true artisan, Alquilar said. "


It's a Library, words correctly spelled is important!!

[Temple Drake]

no English-competent artists were available, I suppose?

[Mach9]

And I'll bet the "art" isn't one bit better than the spelling. Got a pitcher of it?

[okie01]

"The people that are into humanities, and are into Blake's concept of enlightenment, they are not looking at the words," she said. "In their mind the words register correctly."

POP QUIZ!!!

For which party will Maria Alquilar vote?

[BluSky]

'. . . voted Monday to authorize paying another $6,000, plus expenses, to fly the artist up from Miami to fix the errors.'

Ka-ching!

Creative way of sticking it to this library with another bill and pocketing $6+ G's.

Perhaps there's more raw talent in 'finance' than 'art' with Alquilar.

[FreedomCalls]

Maria Alquilar

[jnarcus]

Just another reason that in Santa Cruz REAL scholars home school...;)

[FreedomCalls]

Maria Alquilar has a home page illustrating some of her "art". There's even a series of paintings on velvet (no Elvis though) as well as an "erotic" section.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Is it hugh?