First draft....sure to be a bust.
Posted on 01/17/2009 3:02:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
HOUSTON -- As Barack Obama considers the pantheon of larger-than-life presidents who came before him, David Adickes pauses to consider Barack Obama.
The Houston sculptor carefully examines the president-elect’s profile: his slightly furrowed brow, the firm mouth pursed somewhere between smile and frown, the expressive eyes. Adickes squints. Something is not quite right.
“Looking at him, I see that his ears have to go back about a quarter of an inch,” Adickes says, then reaches to gently tweak the features on a life-size model of the president-elect’s head.
The bust is the first step in plans for a replica of Obama’s head to join dozens of other presidential busts the size of two-story buildings sitting behind a chain-link fence in the parking lot and camped in rows inside the vast studio space in an industrial part of Houston.
They are the faces of American history past and present. On the table, the unfolding countenance of the 44th president. In the lot outside, looming 18 to 20-feet tall, the supersized sculptures of Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Harry Truman, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln.
The enormous statues, created by Adickes using a painstaking technique of layered concrete and steel, will line a winding waterway at the planned Presidential Park and Gardens at Waterlights, an 18-acre mixed-use development in Pearland, a suburb just south of Houston.
Six statues—George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson and George Herbert Walker Bush—are already in place at the site.
Soon, a Barack Obama statue—sculpted using the model resting on Adickes’ studio table—will join them.
Adickes, who began fashioning the Obama piece last week, is pushing to finish the statue by Presidents’ Day, Feb. 16.
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Anyone armed with eggs when the statue is completed?
Symbolic. We’re all preparing for a massive 0bama bust.
>> “Looking at him, I see that his ears have to go back about a quarter of an inch,
How about his brain?
Not if its made out of pate and served with a nice cracker and a good wine.
I’m expecting the economy to experience a prolonged Obama bust as well...
Well, his bust is massive, with those huge manboobs...
Obama’s a bust. I like it.
Never did I imagine a man being worshipped as much as this man has. I can’t wait for the puzt to fall and then watch the masses crucify him.
Too late. The man is already a gigantic bust.
Beat me. Yep, we’d better get ready.
The first time I read it I thought it said:
US Attorney General preparing massive Obama bust
First draft....sure to be a bust.
A lot of voters are about to figure that out, too....
Mark my words.
Congress WILL propose Obama is chiseled into Mt. Rushmore w/in two years after his term is completed whether it be four or eight years...
What about an ‘Obama Butt’? Stick a ciggy in the crack, and there ya’ go.
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