Where's The Censorship & Crushing of Dissent When We Really Need It?
From today's Star Tribune Item World:
Sculptor Aldo Moroni is bringing the Iraq war home to his northeast Minneapolis studio, where he plans to spend the next three years building his own Babylon. Starting Saturday, Moroni and assistants will turn thousands of pounds of clay into ceramic huts and towers covering a 20-by-8-foot platform that will represent the "fertile crescent" between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Legend has it that western civilization began in the crescent, and warriors from Alexander the Great to the Presidents Bush have been slugging it out there ever since. Moroni plans to build, level and rebuild the crescent's many layers of history, from Babylonian to Greek to modern skyscrapers. "After doing public art projects for years, I'm going back to my roots," said Moroni, whose ceramic map of the Upper Midwest hangs in the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Minneapolis. He calls the project "my Guernica," referring to Picasso's antiwar masterpiece.
Three years? Must be nice to have that kind of free time on your hands. At least he's not arrogant or anything...
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