Put something like this outside a high school and what would you expect but snickering from the kids? For the record, it’s called “Warrior Within” so feel free to insert whatever jokes you can come up with.
Here’s the latest news from art world hotspot of Wasilla, Alaska–otherwise known as Sarah Palin’s hometown. A public sculpture installed in front of the town’s high school on Jan. 29 has raised the ire of some local residents who claim it looks like female genitalia.
An article in the Wasila local newspaper, The Frontiersman printed this description of the piece:
“Emerging from the powerful stone form are two warrior shields encircled by glowing feathers. The bronze shield has a hand impression showing ‘good deeds.’ The aluminum shield has a flame symbol representing the ‘spark of inspiration.’ The stone form represents the strong material from which a warrior is made.”
Uh…listen, call us sick and everything but that description alone kind of makes us think of a vagina as described by Homer or Beowulf or something. The article also contains other great and unintentional double entendres that could either be talking about the spirit of warriors or a lady’s hoo-ha.
Jim Dault, one of the artist’s behind the piece said: “People need to slow down…It needs to be experienced up close, personally, because it is in three dimensions.”
Yep. I can already hear the first one from my old highschool wrestling team. “Warrior within…sure…more like get in touch with your inner pussy.”
Sounds like a job for armchair gynecologist Andrew Sullivan. Because I’m sure a Palin is tangentially involved in this somehow.
Jim Dault, one of the artist’s behind the piece said: “People need to slow down…It needs to be experienced up close, personally, because it is in three dimensions.”
So that’s how they’re describing foreplay these days?
I looks just like Sarah Palins’ mommy parts!!!!!!!
Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking it is Bristols.
Coming soon: A statue of a rocket celebrating Wasilla’s contributions to the space program.
“The statue will feature clouds at it’s base representing the slow and steady build-up gasses from the main engines culminating is a tremendous explosion of power sending the rocket blasting off towards space and a tremendous relief to all involved in the project”
That is nothing compared to the Russian/New Jersey, 9/11 memorial.
http://interestingamerica.com/2011-03-04_Russian_Tear_Monument_by_R_Grigonis_37.html
I can’t tell if they are trying to call us out with it or not.
Its obviously a shield. What is wrong with you people?
Pubic art, perhaps?
Things look a lot different when you do lots of meth.
What shields? I thought that the peace loving eskimo/innuit/whatever we’re allowed to call them today were peace loving and didn’t need shields? I thought that they didn’t even have the word ‘war’ in their language? Or is that Palin’s fault too?