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| 2004-10-07 |
| LIVERMORE — It didn't take a nuclear physicist to realize changes were needed after a $40,000 ceramic mural was unveiled outside the city's new library and everyone could see the misspelled names of Einstein, Shakespeare, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo and seven other historical figures. "Our library director is very frustrated that she has this lovely new library and it has all these misspellings in front," said city Councilwoman Lorraine Dietrich, one of three council members who voted Monday to authorize paying another $6,000, plus expenses, to fly the artist up from Miami to fix the errors. In my world this is 'errors and omissions' and the ignorant twit should pay for fixing it on her own 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 for the 11 misspellings among the 175 names. "to be tied to one spelling of a representation of a persona/nym is to be bound from artistic and creative freedom....and stuff" "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." 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 "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. "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." "It's not my fault!" |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #13 ed: if you take your "correction pen" out there, leave Shakespeare's name alone, however it's spelled. Shakespeare never spelled his name the way we do, and he never spelled it the same way twice in his surviving manuscripts. "Blake's Concept of Enlightenment" sounds like something a graduate student stuck for a thesis topic came up with after too many espressos. My revered teachers Sister Jeanne and Sister Jeremy would never have uttered such gobbledygook; they could present the best of an artist's written work in lucid English. And Blake, as a printer and artist, would have taken care to do his work properly. So don't take his name in vain. |
| Posted by: mom 2004-10-07 10:51:17 PM |
| #12 Next time I'm out there, I'll be sure to take my |
| Posted by: ed 2004-10-07 9:05:04 PM |
| #11 I guess you could say the poor gal made a monumental spelling error. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2004-10-07 8:28:45 PM |
| #10 ROTFL!! Gotta give the dipwit credit for managing to scam the taxpayers out of another six grand. |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-10-07 8:18:59 PM |
| #9 "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." See, you idiots? You're all just jealous that you're not enlightened. Like her. So what if you can spell? P.S.: What the fuck is Blake's concept of enlightenment? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-10-07 8:13:21 PM |
| #8 "The importance of this work is that it is supposed to unite people." I think we are pretty much united that she is an idiot! So your work is complete. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-10-07 7:11:16 PM |
| #7 The trouble is that she was using a 1972 ceramic typesetting machine that did not have spell check... |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2004-10-07 6:33:03 PM |
| #6 "The importance of this work is that it is supposed to unite people...[t]hey are denigrating my work..." We are united in the denigration of your work. Isn't that enough? Photo of mural here. Photo of misspelling here. Video here. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2004-10-07 6:13:07 PM |
| #5 Barb, drop a few zeros too. Back off man, I'm a |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-10-07 6:11:08 PM |
| #4 Then I'm sure she won't mind if the words her paycheck are "misspelled" - say, "Forty" is misspelled "Four." After all, "The mistakes wouldn’t even register with a true artisan." |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-07 5:55:35 PM |
| #3 Careless, sloppy, stupid and liberal is no way to go through life, sweetie. Sometimes I wonder about this country of ours. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-10-07 5:18:05 PM |
| #2 Another altruist savior. Phoo. |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-10-07 5:14:30 PM |
| #1 your tell em maria! |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-10-07 5:12:27 PM |