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Re: spread the peace | By J. Kurtis Wahlbrink on 6/1/2006 4:25 PM | Copied from the San Diego Union Tribune, Monday, June 5, 2006:
Turning the cross into a new symbol:
The photograph at Sunset Cliffs (Local, June 1) gave me an idea. Why not change the cross on Mount Soledad into a peace symbol? The shapes are very similar, and the message conveyed by both is the same. And it would be a lot cheaper to make the transformation than to pay a $5,000-a-day fine, or give some lawyers a bunch of money for what would likely be yet another loser of an appeal.
J. KURTIS WAHLBRINK
La Jolla
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Re: spread the peace | By Anonymous on 6/1/2006 7:17 PM | | I LOVE the idea of putting a peace sign up instead of the cross! Way better than the $5000 a day in legal fees that WON'T stop as long as the cross is up there. Great solution! |
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Re: spread the peace | By Anonymous on 6/2/2006 6:13 AM | Coast-to-Coast
I heard about this all the way out in Connecticut. Whoever did this in California, please don't forget about the east coast. We could use one here also!
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Re: spread the peace | By mg in ob on 6/2/2006 6:39 AM | | Connecticut, yes! Peace art throughout the globe would be a beautiful thing. |
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Re: spread the peace | By Anonymous on 6/2/2006 1:24 PM | | Ahh yes! A peace sign on Mt Soledad! How do we make that happen? It would be so appropriate considering the fact that there is a memorial up there... |
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Re: spread the peace | By www.brittsart.net on 6/3/2006 10:15 AM | guerilla art
I really like that....
Forcing people to bend or to exercise muscles that have been sleepy for a long time.
And doing it through Artistic expression, in there face but in a peacful way...
Good Idea
I think I might just do my own Guerilla Art in my own community
thanks for the inspiration.
www.brittsart.net
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Re: spread the peace | By Auntie T on 4/16/2007 7:52 PM | | Love the concept, the clandestine installation journal (grin) and the simplicity of the message. What about a desert installation? Phoenix could use the reminder. |
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Re: spread the peace | By KCIMSAN on 1/10/2008 11:32 PM | Gee, the OB “peace” sign is gone. No, I didn’t take it, but it’s nice not to have to look at what appeared to be pieces of broken bottles shaped in the form of a wagon wheel.
Sorry, but I disagree completely with most of the postings. I’m a retired Marine Corps officer and in case some of you haven’t noticed, this is a military town.
That creation that some people mistook for art, was - in my opinion - a slap in the face to those who serve our country and those of us who served. That ridiculous sign came out of the peacenik, demonstrator, and war protested ‘60s and was in reality an anti war symbol and is now incorrectly considered a symbol of peace. WRONG! The symbol of peace has been a dove and an olive branch for centuries. Type, “What is the universal symbol for peace?” in Google. I never saw an anti war sign.
I feel that it would be a mockery and a travesty to even consider displaying an anti-war sign on the San Diego landscape and we would be the laughing stock of the country if we tried to adopt it as our dictum. PLEASE! The best “peace sign” I’ve seen was at the spectacular National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia. It consists of three grenade rings formed in the shape of the ’60 symbol and that is exactly were it should be, a MUSEUM.
Please remember that our country is at war, albeit not a popular war with the bleeding hearts, we ARE at war San Diegans. Don’t rub peace signs from forty years ago in the faces of those who serve your country. Can you imagine the Commander in Chief, a high level general, or flag grade officer wearing a peace sign on their uniform?
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