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Maybe don't put a jury together for a veterans memorial that doesn't include any veterans?
You don't need special qualifications to look at a memorial and see if it actually represents what is supposed to be memorialized, and you can probably make a solid arguement that it should be a panel of non specialists that is representative of the population.
Special juries tend to have their heads way up their ass and get more carried away with concepts and other abstract ideas, and then you end up with weird stupid shit totally divorced from whatever it is it's supposed to memorialize.
The National War Memorial, Korean War Memorial, Aboriginal Veteran memorial are all very easily identifiable as what they are for, and communicate a clear message.
The design the jury picked communicated shade I guess, but completely removed any linkage to the real human cost of the war, in both deaths, and physical/mental injuries.
Agree that putting a process in place and then ignoring the process is probably not great, but at the end of the day that was the only design out of the 4 that wasn't some kind of high brow conceptual piece of trash.
You don't need special qualifications to look at a memorial and see if it actually represents what is supposed to be memorialized, and you can probably make a solid arguement that it should be a panel of non specialists that is representative of the population.
Special juries tend to have their heads way up their ass and get more carried away with concepts and other abstract ideas, and then you end up with weird stupid shit totally divorced from whatever it is it's supposed to memorialize.
The National War Memorial, Korean War Memorial, Aboriginal Veteran memorial are all very easily identifiable as what they are for, and communicate a clear message.
The design the jury picked communicated shade I guess, but completely removed any linkage to the real human cost of the war, in both deaths, and physical/mental injuries.
Agree that putting a process in place and then ignoring the process is probably not great, but at the end of the day that was the only design out of the 4 that wasn't some kind of high brow conceptual piece of trash.