The real “Crescent of Embrace”
“Crescent of Embrace”, the absolutely godawful Pennsylvania 9/11 memorial for the heroes of Flight 93 - a group of American civilians who did what their government could not: defend the capital - deserves every bit of the criticism it has received. It is a horrible, terrible, mindboggingly distasteful load of crap whose designer Paul Murdoch…well, let’s not say any more about him…Instead, surf over to Cox & Forkum and have a look at their biting and far more relevant interpretation of the Crescent of Embrace.
Geez. How can it so difficult to make a monument? Just take a slab of granite and inscribe the words “Let’s Roll”.
September 19th, 2005 at 2:06 am
Perhaps it is an attempt to symbolically appropriate Islam and subsume it within the western cultural persona so as to counter ‘other’ versions of it. It enables the floating vote a choice of two shores which will enable it to still claim, even if it is only in name, to be an adherent of Islam thus effectively severing Islamic familal consciousness.
September 20th, 2005 at 10:58 am
Yeah, but more likely it’s just the mindless work of a clueless, self-centric, wannabe multiculturalist.
September 22nd, 2005 at 12:56 pm
[...] If Schlussel is correct, then “Flight Plan” seems like the movie version of that awful “Crescent of Embrace” faux-morial [...]