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« Reply #30 on Mar 25, 2012, 3:59am »

Aaarrgh ~~ this is going to the second page. Please note there are more pics of the uninstalling in reply #29.

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I hope I've made you all feel completely familiar with the plaza of Sto. Domingo -- all the better to enjoy this remarkable panorama. It has to load completely before you can go to full screen:
http://www.uncorneredmarket.com/2012/02/....exico-panorama/

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« Reply #31 on Mar 25, 2012, 6:36pm »

It must be sad to see them go after having them around for so long. It'd be nice if they could stay but I suppose they take up way too much room. Do you know where they're going to end up?

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« Reply #32 on Mar 25, 2012, 8:13pm »

Oh, it's a pedestrian street -- there's plenty of room for the little migrantes. It's been kind of cool coming out of a building or walking along yakking to someone and finding myself suddenly in the midst of a group of them. I suppose the work might lose its impact with time, but I really enjoyed having them there.

I took this as I exited the pasta/pizza restaurant on that corner. It's not much of a picture, but it may capture a little bit of the artist's intent.
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Do you know Auden's poem, Musee des Beaux Arts?

About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along
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how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster ...

Did you do the panorama? It's pretty cool.

Kimby asked the same question about their final destination. I've searched & searched, but don't know any more than I did when I first made the thread.

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« Reply #33 on Mar 25, 2012, 9:25pm »

Yeah, I checked out the panorama. It's really neat.

I hope the migrants find a good home. I know it would take a tremendous amount of space to store them, but I can't imagine the artist would destroy his work. Maybe he can sell a few.

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« Reply #34 on Mar 26, 2012, 5:00am »

The fact that they don't stay forever makes them more special. And of course little by little they would have deteriorated. I'm sure they'll find a new place to visit, but I can imagine how a city hesitates before allowing this sort of thing.

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« Reply #35 on Apr 5, 2012, 3:06am »

Might be appropriate to dig a mass grave and pile them in. Very evocative.

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« Reply #36 on Apr 5, 2012, 2:38pm »

Kimby, that idea really has possibilities, macabre as it is.

The original stories about this undertaking (no pun intended) is that the figures would all be installed somewhere in the desert near the US. It's odd that I can't find any updates on that.

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« Reply #37 on Apr 5, 2012, 4:22pm »

Thanks bixa, I worried that you might take it the wrong way, when I was really thinking more the symbolism of a mass burial, rather than a way to get rid of a pile of art that I may or may not like.

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« Reply #38 on Apr 5, 2012, 7:05pm »

No, believe me, I got it. I used to live up there on the Texas side of the border, quite near where all those bodies were found buried on a ranch near Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Quite often I went over to Matamoros just to have tacos or buy sweet bread or have my shoes fixed or something. Guess those days are gone.

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