HomeMy WebLinkAbout1/21/2020 Item 15, Bosserman
Purrington, Teresa
From:Gordon Bosserman <gbosserman@amblaw.com>
Sent:Monday, January 20, 2020 2:08 PM
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Objection to proposed change
I object to the proposed change. I agree with the statement authored by these six
individuals.
Gordon E. Bosserman
The SLO City Council has proposed this change to our public art policy: “The City shall
accept a ‘Work of Art’ that commemorates ideas, ideals and concepts – not
individual and actual people.”
We reject this attempt by the council to restrict how our community may remember and interpret our
past. A community is made of its “actual people.” Its suffering, its heroism, and its progress are the
suffering, heroism, and progress of actual people—be they 9/11’s first responders, the victims of
Japanese relocation, or Rosario Cooper, who rescued the Northern Chumash language. This attempt
to erase human beings from our past will censor our artists and police our thoughts and emotions. No
government has ever attempted to purge people from the sphere of public space and public memory.
To make San Luis Obispo the prototype of this dehumanizing policy may bring international
embarrassment to our community.
John Ashbaugh, former council member, City of SLO
David Brody, Emeritus Professor of Architecture and City Planning, Cal Poly
Alex and Anne Gough, Sauer-Adams Adobe
Lynn Hessler, Artist
Donna Hoff, Artist
James Papp, Member, Cultural Heritage Committee, City of SLO
Gordon E. Bosserman
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