And I think you're spouting hogwash -- as well as flamebaiting by namecalling against those who disagree with you, and trying to use some sort of bizarre non sequitur to liken them to Kerry supporters. Grow up.
Still, the level of hysteria is bizarre. It's not like the woman is John Kerry in heels.
The only one bordering on "hysteria" here is yourself, with your shrill denunciations of those with whom you disagree.
Nor is this "artist" receiving abuse because of her alleged politics -- or even simply the misspellings themselves. Instead, she is getting a well-deserved drubbing for such fuzzy-headed and arrogant "excuses" on this matter as:
She's getting roasted for her attitude about her errors, not her politics or the mere fact of the errors themselves. If she had just said, "oops, my bad, I'll fix it", this would not have become "an issue". Instead, she's flailing wildly in several directions in order to try to avoid any kind of responsibility for the errors, and to attack those who care that things in libraries should be spelled correctly, at a minimum, and that hired artists should behave professionally and responsibly.Reached at her Miami studio Wednesday by The Associated Press, Maria Alquilar said she was willing to fix the brightly colored 16-foot-wide circular work, but offered no apologizes [sic] for the 11 misspellings among the 175 names.
"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." [i.e, by being upset at the misspellings, they're not being "inclusive" -- Ich.]
Alquilar said it took her quite a bit of her own time and money to create and install the work, and that it sat idle at her Santa Cruz studio for two years until the city cleared the way for its installation.
There were plenty of people around during the installation who could and should have seen the missing and misplaced letters, she said. [i.e., it's *other* people's responsibility to spot the errors before the work was completed, not hers -- Ich.]
"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. [*gag* -- Ich.]
"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." [Just.... wow. -- Ich.]
Now, get off that high horse before you fall and hurt yourself.
I note that you signed up to FreeRepublic about the time that this issue first broke -- do you have any kind of connection to the "artist"? Because you seem to be taking this quite personally, and going far out of your way to defend her.
"I note that you signed up to FreeRepublic about the time that this issue first broke -- do you have any kind of connection to the "artist"? Because you seem to be taking this quite personally, and going far out of your way to defend her."
No, I'm not a troll for the artist. I never met the woman. I simply have a different opinion. I work in the arts and am accustomed to taking on fights with angry hordes of lefties, so I probably have a higher tolerance and ability for putting up a good fight. I didn't agree with the NEA funding bizarre art projects in the 1980's by people that did work solely to shock and disgust. I simply don't think that this women has done anything to deserve such hostility.