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The lovely, the vivacious, the spelling-challenged Ms. Aquilar, whom the world revolves around. (Click the picture). |
Posted on 10/08/2004 4:45:29 PM PDT by DameAutour
SAN FRANCISCO - The artist who misspelled the names of famous people in world history on a large ceramic mosaic outside Livermore's new library can spell one word with ease: N-O. That's Maria Alquilar's new position on fixing the typos.
She had planned to fly to California and put the missing "n" back in Einstein and remove the extra "a" in Michelangelo, among other fixes. But after receiving a barrage of what she called "vile hate mail," Alquilar said Livermore is off her travel itinerary and there'll be no changes by her artistic hand.
"No, I will not return to Livermore for any reason," Alquilar, of Miami, told The Associated Press in an e-mail. "There seems to be so much hatred within certain people. They continuously look for a scapegoat. I guess I am the sacrificial goat."
She previously told officials in Livermore, about 40 miles east of San Francisco, that she would fix the 11 misspellings. She asked for $6,000 plus travel expenses to correct the work they paid her $40,000 to create. The city council, faced with the embarrassing prospect of leaving the typo-strewn work in front of its spanking new library, voted 3-2 to approve the expenditure.
Now it appears the fix is a no go.
Livermore Mayor Marshall Kamena and Councilwoman Lorraine Dietrich did not return calls seeking comment on what their next move would be.
Alquilar explained that it took her a lot of time and money to create the work, a brightly colored 16-foot-wide circle made up of individual tiles depicting the names and images of famous people in world history.
She noted that plenty of people from the city were on hand during the installation who could and should have seen the errant spellings, she said.
"Even though I was on my hands and knees laying the installation out, I didn't see it," she said.
The mistakes wouldn't even register with a true artisan, Alquilar said before deciding to leave the work as is.
"The people that are into humanities, and are into Blake's concept of enlightenment, they are not looking at the words," she told The AP.
When asked whether she chose the words and names for the work or whether the city provided her with a list, Alquilar took an artistic stance in response.
"The art chose the words," she said.
Her initial comment was worse... I'll see if I can find it.
Stupid is as stupid does.
“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.”
Invite a few graffiti folks to modify it.
You should make a mural of your ordeal and title it "The Sacrefishle Gote"
When her new car breaks down and she wants it fixed, the dealer should claim artistic styling with his master work of duct tape and bailing wire.
What a winer.
lol!
Is she saying that true artisans would not notice misspelled words and thus are complete morons...Amazing..
"The art chose the words," she said.
LOL
Unbelievable idiocy. Is this woman fully or functionally illiterate? Should her parents sue the school she attended, should the city sue the artist, or should the voters vote the lunatics out of the asylum?
She puts the "art" in "fart".
This woman has got to be a Kerry supporter. I'll bet that there were no mispellings on the bill.
Face it: this ditz knows she is too ignorant to spell the words correctly -- even with help -- that's why she won't even try to fix her stupid errors...
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The lovely, the vivacious, the spelling-challenged Ms. Aquilar, whom the world revolves around. (Click the picture). |
"This is hugh and series. My beeber is on stuned."
What an idiot. Stop payment immediately and send the POS back to her. Blake, incidentally, at least knew how to spell enlightenment. Too bad the Livermore City Council didn't proof her work.
The crew should chisel her name off the Piece Of "Art" and mispell it "David Jones" since the names don't matter. They should definitely sue for the repair costs since she was negligent enough to screwed it up.
So I guess we can say this about the artist: She's stupid, but on the other hand, she's arrogant.
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