Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Jesus Obama or Jesus Stymie?
Have you heard about the statue of Barack Obama in a Christ-like pose? Well, said statue actually looks like Stymie from the Little Rascals. You be the judge (details follow the pic):
"He wears Jesus' robes and a neon blue halo, looks like Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and is causing a stir at a Chicago art school.
"An undergraduate student's papier mache sculpture of Obama as a messianic figure - entitled 'Blessing' - went on display Saturday at a downtown gallery run by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. By Monday, word of the piece had spread on political blogs, and the school had been flooded with calls.
"David Cordero, 24, made the sculpture for his senior show after noticing all the attention Obama has received since he first hinted he may run for the presidency.
"'All of this is a response to what I've been witnessing and hearing, this idea that Barack is sort of a potential savior that might come and absolve the country of all its sins,' Cordero said. "In a lot of ways it's about caution in assigning all these inflated expectations on one individual, and expecting them to change something that many hands have shaped."
Somewhere, Jesus - Christ, that is - is rolling his eyes.
"He wears Jesus' robes and a neon blue halo, looks like Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and is causing a stir at a Chicago art school.
"An undergraduate student's papier mache sculpture of Obama as a messianic figure - entitled 'Blessing' - went on display Saturday at a downtown gallery run by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. By Monday, word of the piece had spread on political blogs, and the school had been flooded with calls.
"David Cordero, 24, made the sculpture for his senior show after noticing all the attention Obama has received since he first hinted he may run for the presidency.
"'All of this is a response to what I've been witnessing and hearing, this idea that Barack is sort of a potential savior that might come and absolve the country of all its sins,' Cordero said. "In a lot of ways it's about caution in assigning all these inflated expectations on one individual, and expecting them to change something that many hands have shaped."
Somewhere, Jesus - Christ, that is - is rolling his eyes.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Tuesday, April 03, 2007 
