Letter: Support for ‘artwork’ draws ridicule
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I can hardly believe all the letters about this “beloved artwork” at the corner of Claycut and Foster.
Are you kidding me?
That “artwork” is no more than practice work for the students who took that particular class. If the students want to preserve some of their past, or some of this “artwork,” allow them to get a piece of it for whatever meaning it has to them while it’s being torn down.
Have any of the actual students who contributed to this even opposed the demolition?
I realize beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but that conglomerate is an eyesore. I would much rather have a functioning new fire station that will do much more than take up space.
If my parents kept all the “artwork” we did, they would have needed another home to hold all of that “art” in.
It is also amazing that someone actually submitted this structure as a registered piece of art to the National Smithsonian Registry of Art and it was accepted. Did the committee that approved that even see what they approved? I have a hard time believing they did.
This is not the Statue of Liberty or Mount Rushmore, people.
One writer submits, “What message are we sending the children if we tear down the monument that they created … ?”
We would be telling them it’s time to move on; take a picture and put it in your scrapbook.
I don’t ever remember any of our artwork being worshipped by our parents as we grew up, as some of the writers are suggesting we do for this structure.
Some of you really need to get a purpose. Quit crying, quit whining, grow up, move on.
C.I. Graham
public safety
Baton Rouge
Are you kidding me?
That “artwork” is no more than practice work for the students who took that particular class. If the students want to preserve some of their past, or some of this “artwork,” allow them to get a piece of it for whatever meaning it has to them while it’s being torn down.
Have any of the actual students who contributed to this even opposed the demolition?
I realize beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but that conglomerate is an eyesore. I would much rather have a functioning new fire station that will do much more than take up space.
If my parents kept all the “artwork” we did, they would have needed another home to hold all of that “art” in.
It is also amazing that someone actually submitted this structure as a registered piece of art to the National Smithsonian Registry of Art and it was accepted. Did the committee that approved that even see what they approved? I have a hard time believing they did.
This is not the Statue of Liberty or Mount Rushmore, people.
One writer submits, “What message are we sending the children if we tear down the monument that they created … ?”
We would be telling them it’s time to move on; take a picture and put it in your scrapbook.
I don’t ever remember any of our artwork being worshipped by our parents as we grew up, as some of the writers are suggesting we do for this structure.
Some of you really need to get a purpose. Quit crying, quit whining, grow up, move on.
C.I. Graham
public safety
Baton Rouge
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