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 artistic ignoranti people around during the installation who could and should have seen the missing and misplaced letters, she said.
"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!"
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"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.
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"The people that are into humanities, and are into Blakeâs 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?
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Next time I'm out there, I'll be sure to take my spray paint correction pen.
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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.
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