this mr kennicott certainly has things figured out doesn't he? or did he forget that people have the right of self-determination? that we can choose our own paths, including choices that may not lead where everyone else expects. his exercise in projection about what ms lin should be doing is tasteless, ungenerous, and very --- washington dc.
I think this article is brilliant. Those who are content to pursue architectural 'happy places' deprive the world of their efforts and of better places to live, work, and play.
Kennicott sounds like a spurned lover, and a cynically idealist one at that - much like the current cognitively-dissonant administration I might add.
To paraphrase him, the ultimate arrogance of moribund journalists is the belief that they control the meaning of their subject, the shape of their subject's career, the pattern their subject's biographical narrative.
In capable hands, Lin's alleged retreat from controversial design work and treatment of her alleged political naivety would have been contextualized by the unreal expectations following an early success. Nevertheless, this point is highlighted by his unabashedly defamatory rant. He may very well be right about her lack of media savvy and inept handling of overtly political subjects but Lin is an artist, not a seasoned lobbyist with a Machiavellian agenda and a black heart.
I suspect Maya Lin has given considerably more thought to the perils of emotionally-charged architectural commissions than Mr. Kennicott ever has, and despite the searing public backlash she has endured still manages to create quietly provocative work that outshines and, evidently, outlasts the hue and cry from a blinkered media.
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this mr kennicott certainly has things figured out doesn't he? or did he forget that people have the right of self-determination? that we can choose our own paths, including choices that may not lead where everyone else expects. his exercise in projection about what ms lin should be doing is tasteless, ungenerous, and very --- washington dc.
yeah, i must be irrelevant too. i went from architecture, to print and digital design. oh, the horror.
it's the journey, not the path. – studs terkel
I think this article is brilliant. Those who are content to pursue architectural 'happy places' deprive the world of their efforts and of better places to live, work, and play.
Kennicott sounds like a spurned lover, and a cynically idealist one at that - much like the current cognitively-dissonant administration I might add.
To paraphrase him, the ultimate arrogance of moribund journalists is the belief that they control the meaning of their subject, the shape of their subject's career, the pattern their subject's biographical narrative.
In capable hands, Lin's alleged retreat from controversial design work and treatment of her alleged political naivety would have been contextualized by the unreal expectations following an early success. Nevertheless, this point is highlighted by his unabashedly defamatory rant. He may very well be right about her lack of media savvy and inept handling of overtly political subjects but Lin is an artist, not a seasoned lobbyist with a Machiavellian agenda and a black heart.
I suspect Maya Lin has given considerably more thought to the perils of emotionally-charged architectural commissions than Mr. Kennicott ever has, and despite the searing public backlash she has endured still manages to create quietly provocative work that outshines and, evidently, outlasts the hue and cry from a blinkered media.
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