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Sunday, July 13, 2003
The case against public art
The Port of San Diego is on the verge allowing a mistake that will make the city the laughingstock (not counting the SD Chargers) of the country.
But the San Diego Unified Port District seems determined to cement the image of San Diego as a place where adventurous public art won't get built but large follies are welcome.
The port commissioners have entertained a proposal for a bland, bloated amalgam of sculpture, fountain and plaza by San Diego artist A. Wasil, called "Spirit of the Seas," and they seem to like what they see. At a recent meeting, the commissioners voted unanimously for its staff to study the feasibility of various sites for the $50 million project.
"Spirit of the Seas" would be a towering monument to nothing more than artistic timidity and ambitious entrepreneurship. It has precious little to say about San Diego, while it would tell the world this is one excruciatingly parochial town when it comes to art or monuments.
If this is the future for art in public places here, then let's have public places without art. I'd rather look at an unfettered view of the bay than see a 50-foot bronze Neptune done in some vaguely retro-mannerist style rise before our eyes.
Wanna see it? Keep in mind that it willl be about 200 feet long. Here it is.
This is the unholy lovechild of the anthropomorphic crap-art of Wyland and Jason and the Argonaut-era Ray Harryhausen.
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