Monument to Pro-Life
I was reading the news during a break in this student council convention (I'll post a summary later) and I came across something interesting. Evidently, artist Daniel Edwards has sculpted a "Monument to Pro-Life" in the form of an idealized depiction of Britney Spears giving birth:
I'm sure a sculpture like this is going to result in all kinds of different reactions. While I may not agree that Spears is the "ideal model for Pro-Life," as Edwards puts it, I know one thing is for sure: while pro-lifers may be divided in their reactions, all of the pro-choice liberals are going to hate it! So, naturally, that automatically makes me a fan of this endeavor. I think the liberals are going to be upset primarily because any monument to "pro-choice" would be so hideous and ugly that nobody would ever endeavor to idealize it. That point of view can never be idealized. While people love to talk about "pro-choice" and idealize it with words, no one really ever wants to look at the reality of a defenseless life being extinguished before its first breath.
The act of birth, on the other hand, represents the best within us. In this culture of war and death that we live in, any monument to life and the miracle of birth is a light shining in the darkness. And besides... there's something sexy about a pregnant, naked woman on a bearskin rug.
For more information, visit the Capla Kesting Fine Art Gallery where the monument will be displayed (it also has some good shots from other angles).
posted by Fëanor @ 4:06 PM
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Hard to believe it's the same woman who was changing said baby's dirty diaper on the table at a fine Hollywood restaurant just a few weeks ago. Straight outta Kentwood, y'all!
so get your family started already old man!
It's an ideal, AWG. Notice there are no diaper bags in this picture. It's a celebration of human life... an odd model for it, I guess, but still a celebration, nonetheless.
Dean, I swear I'll get around to it sometime. Before we decided to move, we were talking about it. Maybe I can talk my wife to posing for one of these things when she gets pregnant! LOL
Wait a second... She had a caesarian though... is that how the doctor makes you sit when you're delivering a baby by having a c-section? this thing shouldn't have spears' name attached to it at all. Plus, what's the bear head all about? I guess they just put that there so they could call it art, instead of sculpted porn?
And this is a guy who had a Spears poster in our room back in college! LOL
Perhaps, the subject was chosen because the artist knew it would ignite controversy, and controversy = free publicity.
Pop tarts like Spears ... I dunno. That's an ideal? I don't think it looks like Spears. Looks more like a young Kim Basinger. Spears has a nice body but her mug ... hmmm. You're right about the bearskin rug. And I'm afraid I don't get the pro-life/pro-choice part. Is it supposed to be a political statement?
I'm pro-choice, and I think that's a pretty cool looking sculpture.
You misunderstand me, Fëanor... I have no grudges against sculpted porn of Britney Spears... That's not my point. My point is, you should call an apple an apple. If it's sculpted porn (hereafter called SPorn), it should be called sculpted porn, and not "a monument to pro-life, because we put a bear head, and that makes it art."
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