there has been a battle being waged in Pilot Point, Texas over art and ignorance, that proves once again that while you can't fight city hall, you can poke it in the eye...in the town is an art gallery, the owner commissioned a local artist to paint a mural on the exterior wall...the artist, a woman, painted eve in the garden of eden and the arm of god...i'm guessing a tribute of sorts to the famous painting in the sistene chapel...i liked the piece myself and while eve is nude it is done in the style of the great masters, and is certainly not obscene by any sane person's standards.
of course the powers that be in pilot point are not sane, and declaring it not only obscene, but a violation of the law, because it is public and children are being exposed to the obscenity...under threat of prosecution he was ordered to remove it, or cover eve's breasts, so that the kids would not be corrupted....appealing, and losing, he found a wonderfully ironic method to comply and stay out of jail...eve's offending breasts are now covered by a strip od painted crime scene tape....three cheers for this inventive solution...i bet most of the narrow minded twits, including the police chief, will miss the message here, but the rest of us can enjoy the joke, while crying over the stupidity of the entire incident.
Posted by Angstman at August 21, 2003 04:20 PM | TrackBackhow can breasts be bad for children!?!?!?!? children are the reason breasts are there to begin with! though the tape is clever. (pilot point blows, anyway. it's a high school three churches, a grain silo and a dairy queen.)
Posted by: aldahlia at August 22, 2003 12:20 AMThey aren't, the moronic attitude of the police chief and people like him who twist beauty into something ugly and perverse are, but they can't quite seem to grasp that fact.
Posted by: Angstman at August 22, 2003 12:59 AM