What was the Art Council thinking?

If this what they thought was the best of the three finalists, they should have thrown them all out and tried again. Being a retired professor of visual communication and design (both two- and three-dimensional) at a Midwestern university college of design, I, in all my years of teaching, have never seen any student work so lacking in design or conceptual symbology. Any student who submitted anything this totally without any visual merit or conceptual meaning would have gone back to the drawing board or received a failing grade.

Art should, of course, be about controversy: of meaning, of symbology, of beauty, of sense of time and place.

This ghastly piece of junk meets none of these criteria. It should never have happened and should be removed and the space left bare as a remembrance to what should never have been.

Ed Lehner

Durango