Thursday, January 11, 2024

The Deterioration of Eco-Earth Acid Ball is Richer Art

Salem Reporter today has an update on lagging fund-raising to repair the Eco-Earth Acid Ball mosaic.

Our failing earth, Salem Reporter

The hot take here is: We should let it deteriorate and become a locus for our climate grief and a galvanizing sign for action. To emphasize and restore a pristine wholeness is to make it purely decorative and to mute it. Instead of understanding it as an anodyne sign for optimism, we should regard its decay as a more truthful symbol of our moment. Its transience should be regarded as essential rather than accidental. It should be an unsettling art.

Washington Post, yesterday

LA Times, today

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