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Discuss “Ugly and cumbersome, sure; but is it art?”

Weeks ago you couldn't walk across campus without noticing the gaping hole in the ground between Doherty and Baker Halls. Ironically placed next to a patch of earth that was being reseeded, the crater on CFA lawn was curiously filled as quickly as it appeared.

So why the digging? Why rip up the ground just to fill it again? Was it part of an organic biology project in which MCS classes would study geological and botanical properties found on our own campus? No, it wasn't. It was the groundwork for adding another piece of donated "art" to our campus.

We've experienced a lot of odd art additions to campus recently. The multi-colored snowman was bad, but bearable. And the Kraus Campo raised the bar for what we considered to be an eyesore and...

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Comment 1. Nils Gorden
Dec 31, 2007 at 09:21 PM

I understand where you are coming from, and indeed it does not seem to suit the circumstances (either in matching them or pushing against them), but you referred to it as being abstract, and I guess I felt obliged to quickly say that it is far from abstract, but is quite representational. In fact, I think if it were abstracted, it might "suit" those "circumstances."

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