9/11 Memorial

Here are two views of a proposed memorial to those who died in the Islamic Fundamentalist atrocity of 9/11. It was to be erected on Potters Fields Park, beside London's City Hall, using wreckage from the World Trade Center; but the charity that commissioned the work from US artist Miya Ando has now put the project on hold following complaints by UK relatives of some of the victims. Aesthetically the proposed sculpture is junk, but in this case the psychology of the concept is more important than its lack of artist merit. The UK relatives of the deceased have criticised the proposed sculpture as "disturbing". I agree. What strikes me as disturbing is that the work appears less like a memorial to the dead and much more like a tribute to their murderers. It says: "Look at the damage we wrought. Weren't we clever?" That is entirely the wrong message to be giving out! This sculpture should be cancelled and another artist found to design a sensitive memorial to those who died.