A piece of sculpture, 'The Tumbling Woman' has created quite a
furior in NYC after the NY Post did a real 'Enquirer' style bit on it.

http://www.nypost.com/commentary/57305.htm

The sculpture, depicts a nude woman, suposedly at the moment
of impact after having jumped from one of the Towers on 911.
The controversy/furior required the posting of police and as the
madness mounted, covering it.

It was placed for temporary public display outside Rockefeller
Center.

Wonderful to live in a 'free country' where diversity is welcome.

Take care :rolleyes:

It's a stark, even sickening testament to history. But I saw a picture of the statue and smiled.

Yes, it was a wicked smile. But 9/11/2001 was a wicked day. And this particular sculpture seems to touch that darkness very poignantly.

If it makes you sick to your stomach, if it makes you angry, if it makes you dizzy, then at least it's keeping part of that 9/11 feeling alive, which, technically, is what the politicians would like. I hear them cycling through the news-talk shows saying Americans aren't angry enough.

Don't take it out on the art, is my recommendation. Remember why the sculpture was made in the first place, and let the sickness come.

thanx,
Tiassa :cool:

I don't know, tiassa.

Maybe it's just due to my perverse nature, but I have to wonder
if a lot of the foofaraw can't be attibuted to the blatant revision-
ism of the sculptor? After all, how many 'jumpers' took the time to
strip before jumping?

Just a thought ;)

After all, how many 'jumpers' took the time to
strip before jumping? It's called artistic license.

The human soul flies naked to meet its destiny.

A line from Robyn Hitchcock just struck me: God finds you naked and he leaves you dying. What happens in between is up to you.

Yet, at the end, the soul is naked and alone and vulnerable before the necessities of fate.

I'd have to smoke more pot than I have and think for a few hours before coming up with anything more complex.

But artistic license is the key.

And, as license goes, I find it more tasteful than re-ethnicizing the participants of history. Just for a comparison.

thanx,
Tiassa :cool:

Artistic license? Maybe.

The thing that came to my addled brain was:

Her fairy god-mother whispered to her that if she were naked,
she could fly ...

But then, I don't have the mind of an artist.

Hell, the closest I've come to artistic creation was to glue an
empty egg shell and a spark plug to the wall and shine a high
intensity light on it so their shadows looked, at least to me, like
a space station orbiting earth.

I wasn't called 'Weird John' for nothing back in those days!

Take care ;)

Hell, the closest I've come to artistic creation was to glue an
empty egg shell and a spark plug to the wall and shine a high
intensity light on it so their shadows looked, at least to me, like
a space station orbiting earth.That, actually, is pretty damn creative. So it's not the biggest public artistic statement, but truly, you're selling yourself short. That is, in fact, pretty damn impressive. Even if you were forty when you did it.

thanx,
Tiassa :cool:

Whoooa...funky sculpture. It's absolutely mortifying, but I like it. So raw, and full of the emotion that the victims must have felt. The almost inhuman twisting of the lower torso...it looks so painful. And the medium is perfect, because it's so contoured and lumpy...I wish I could see what the artist did on her face.

It may be art, but it is also pretty heartless to make survivors of that day view the sculpture in an open public space and not have the option to 'not' view it. It should have been placed in an art gallery.

sinecure71 beat me to it, so I have to be a lemming and say, "I agree."

Peace.