Enjoy! Spears sculpture on display next month LINK NSFW http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\03\30\story_30-3-2006_pg9_8 LINK NSFW A life-size sculpture of a naked Britney Spears kneeling on a bearskin rug as she gives birth will be on display next month at Brooklyn’s Capla Kesting Fine Art gallery. The sculpture is to appear next to a display case filled with anti-abortion materials. It was created by Daniel Edwards, who said he never spoke to the 24-year-old pop star or met her, and fashioned her face and figure from photographs. “I admire her. This is an idealized figure,” Edwards said Tuesday in a phone interview from his home, which is near his studio in Moosup, Conn. “Everyone is coming at me with anger and venom, but I depicted her as she has depicted herself — seductively. Suddenly, she’s a mom.” Spears, who is married to her former backup dancer Kevin Federline, gave birth to their son, Sean Preston, last year. He is the couple’s first child. The singer’s publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press. When some bloggers heard about the exhibit — “Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston” — the gallery said it received about 3,000 e-mails from around the world in just a week, split between anti-abortion and abortion rights opinions. “We also got calls from Tokyo, England, France. Some people are upset that Britney is being used for this subject matter,” said gallery co-owner David Kesting. “Others who are pro-life thought this was degrading to their movement. And some pro-choice people were upset that this is a pro-life monument.” The gallery, located in Brooklyn’s artsy Williamsburg neighborhood, said it would hire extra security guards for the free exhibit, which will open April 7 and run for two weeks. Edwards, whose sculpture of Ted Williams’ decapitated head — which was frozen in the hope that medical science could one day revive the baseball great — stirred up an artistic storm, said the sculpture of Spears was a “new take on pro-life.” “Pro-lifers normally promote bloody images of abortion. This is the image of birth,” he said. AP
I guarantee you she's NOT giving birth. My wife and I have gone through TWO pregnancies and I believe that's NOT how you deliver a newborn at all, but... [you married/parents guys/gals fill in the blank there, please]
Yeah, it doesn't look like she's giving birth. More like she's ready to take it doggy style. Which would probably sell better in the first place.
Heh. The sculpture is being unveiled in Williamsburg, a neighborhood of Brooklyn. That happens to be where I live. I'll check it out and bring pics.
I beg to differ. There are all sort of crazy techniques and positions people use for delivering a baby. I don't see anything unusual about this one.
On the forum front page, all you can see is "Sculpture of Spears Giving..." I got pretty excited there for a minute...
Lol. I'll concede the bearskin rug adds another element. He did say he was using an element of seductiveness. Given what he's trying to do with the piece, it makes sense to me. In any case, being on your knees for part of a birthing process isn't that unusual.
This, besides the doggy-style reference, does resemble a lot of laboring positions I've seen through the births of four children. I've never seen one delivered like that but lots of laboring... but who knows.... my youngest is 4 and 1/2... lots could have changed in the last half-decade.
