The Editor,
When one checks the amazing variety of photos posted in the photo gallery of Richmonds natural beauty, you wonder how Wind Waves, a piece from the 2009 Biennale, was chosen to land in our city.
Check out the enrapturing kinds of birds, the glorious sun sets, plus the magnificent variety of flowers, grasses, water and sky.
Surely Richmond needs no art works like the controversial Lenin/Miss Mao.
Then add to this, the amount of $700,000 to the art, that distracts from our natural beauty, one wonders who qualifies to select artwork to enhance our city?
In the same paper that wrote about our artwork, you also mentioned the poverty that diminishes our city when 850,000 people are forced to use the food bank!
Such inequality does not enhance our city. Are we really the most live-able city that we state?
When homelessness and child poverty become eradicated, then perhaps we can make greater claims.
Esther McIlveen
Richmond
