Mr Goldsworthy and the Jews

I gotta say i agree with a good deal of what Harriet is ayin in this article. It seems thta all of this would have been clear in Goldsworthies proposal. i thought that ahving a show of other proposed works and getting more public input on the nature of this memorial would have perhpas solved this issue. The fact that by placing stones at this memorial the viewers read it like a grave site would be evidence of the feeling it is inspiring. I'm all about a memorial to the idea and process of death but in this case maybe not so appropriate. I also feel that work should stand on its own without cards to provide that "key of understanding" The people obviously see it as more representative of death than honor or tribute. The fact that the trees to be planted would not survive seems it was obviousl from the get go. Maybe Goldsworthy is saying that death is monumental and that strentgh comes from the thought that we will all die one day like these trees, cramped and suffocated by the fired stone of oppression that is this world.