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so glad i'm a woman
My head is spinning from too many mixed messages. I thought that I had followed the right path by going to university, building a career, entering into a stable relationship and buying my own home before becoming pregnant. It turns out that I'm unnatural and wrong, because I happened to just go over the magic number. Read this and scream, o my sisters. On the other hand, if I'd had children early and my relationship with the father had broken down I would now be a despicable single mother, probably scrounging off the state and making my poor fatherless son turn to antisocial behaviour.
No wonder people didn't know what to make of this piece of art and no one stepped forward to fund it. For goodness sake it's a woman, she's pregnant and she's disabled. Now, how old was she when she got pregnant?
mrs mcmuffin on 16 Sep 2005 @ 04:48 PM ✲ Permalink
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I'm not sure what all the fuss is about reagrding the Alison Lapper sculpture. She has no arms - but then neither does the Venus de Milo and no-ne moans about that! Someone the BBC interviewed for TV said they thought the sculpture was grotesque - a statement tantamount to a personal insult to Alison's physical appearance.
The sculpture doesn't do much for me, no matter how much I admire Alison Lapper - the blame lies with the sculptor not the subject matter. It seems too (struggling to find right word) cold? hard? clinical? lifeless? soul-less? Lacks a certain je ne sais quoi.
Also, I hate the way eyes get done in sculptures like that. Creeps me out.
Gimme a Claes Oldenburg any day.
Posted by: Kirsty | 16 Sep 2005 22:54:25
I meant to respond earlier to your comment, Kirsty-you are absolutely right about the eyes-they are very creepy.
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 19 Sep 2005 22:44:48
What kind of art is it?
Posted by: Dmitro | 15 Dec 2005 13:38:31
