Proposed location for Energy Loop in downtown Asheville

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   Asheville Dweller June 3, 2009

   This isn’t Paris, this is Asheville NC.

   The junk yard would make a great place for this wretched piece of wasted money.

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   NotaCritic May 30, 2009

   For a piece of abstract art, Energy Loop is fairly easy to understand and to relate to. It’s not in the mold of the quickly grasped pictorial pieces on the Urban Trail, so it takes a little looking and thought to "get it." The city was adventurous and brave to choose it as the first piece of public art. If they had done a better job of displaying and interpreting it (telling the public what it was and why it was there), instead of just dumping it on City-County Plaza, it might have become a very much beloved Asheville icon, like the Calder sculpture is in Chicago. Maybe it’s not too late in its new location. As I recall, the people of Paris thought the Eiffel Tower would make "better rebar and support beam" when it was first erected.

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   Asheville Dweller May 29, 2009

   The loop/noodle would still make better rebar and support beam for the parking lot then a so-called art piece.

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