Jen Graves at the Stranger called the morning of Sept 12 and asked me to address the characterization of this piece by local media. We spoke at length, and she pretty well transcribed my responses on her blog. Check the link for full report. Thank you Jen for the rare opportunity to clarify.
Art That’s Not All About Us
On Q13 Fox News yesterday, an anchor praised the life-sized salt sculptures that Michael Magrath placed in Occidental Square as eloquent commemorations of the “pain of 9/11,” poignant memorials to the devastating losses Americans suffered that terrible day.
What a sickening crock.
Magrath made sculptures (see this week’s Suggests) of suffering Iraqis, not suffering Americans, you Fox News jackasses...
http://www.thestranger.com/blog/2006/09/art_thats_not_all_ab.php
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