Posted on 06/25/2009 8:04:32 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
BURIEN, Wash. -- Controversy is surrounding a new sculpture at the Burien/Interim Arts Space. The bronzed piece is of a squatting, nude woman, and it leaves little to the imagination, according to concerned parents.
"Just cover it up a little bit. Too much parts showing for the little kids," said parent Adam Sankey.
Anybody can walk through the privately-owned art space at Fifth Avenue SW and SW 150th Street. And for some, that's an issue, especially with a new library right next door.
"I don't want my kids around it," said parent Jole Sankey. "My 8 year old doesn't need to be exposed to it. I don't even want my 14-year-old son to be exposed to it."
Will it eventually be installed in an alley located in the New Orleans French Quarter during Mardi Gras?
I am pretty sure that my three teen-aged sons see better racks at HS. Insert the old saw about ‘they didn’t build ‘em like that when I was in HS’. Maybe they did, maybe not. But the showcase is sure different today.
Is it slated to become a water fountain?
Well, being a male, I don't usually squat to do that but I see your point.
She looks like shes contemplating why she squatted to poop when there was an empty stall just over there on the right.
she has that constipated look.....
Here I squat,
Broken hearted.
Tried to ...
Except for the naked part, women mostly squat in public to tend to their young children. I've never myself even noticed that some of them look real good when they do it. But I heard that somewhere.
Is that one sheet Sheryl Crow, I ask....?
South East Asian women squat like that all the time....It looks un-natural for her.
I could not agree with you more. ‘Dark’ art, even that which attempts to express the hopelessness of the human condition, can be profound, providing a contrast that illuminates the genuine hope that exists. Even when it is not the intent of the artist.
Every picture has its shadows, and it has some source of light. (Joni Mitchell)
“It is not even a natural pose.”
It’s called the “third world squat.”
In the first world where we have chairs and resulting stiff hamstrings, it’s not so common, unless you are in the Army or install floor tile for a living.
In the third world, where you don’t have chairs, and the only thing you dare let touch the ground is the bottom of your feet, this is the natural position. It’s hard for westerners to do it, but eventually you master sitting in this position (heels down) and can do so for hours at a time.
I learned it in the military, and used it in a survival school setting.
I will have to work on stretching for this "squat" Any special tips on doing so?
“My 8 year old doesn’t need to be exposed to it. I don’t even want my 14-year-old son to be exposed to it.”
Thats it.. shield them from everything so they go nutso when faced with the real world. Very few Europeans would give a second thought about their kids being exposed to it. They would probably be climbing all over the thing. Matter of fact non-repressive attitude about sexuality is probably the reason the teenage pregnancy rate in other countries is zip compared to the U.S. Besides that I see nothing disturbing about the sculpture except for the fact its butt ugly. Certainly nothing erotic about it.
I learned with an Israeli Druze screaming at me, pretending to be a Hamas terrorists, and periodically hitting me with an AK-47, as I tried to keep from falling in donkey sh!t.
Worked pretty well.
(Or I suppose you could just do a front squat in a power rack if you are pussy. The weight will stretch your ham strings.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcZ-fS-X7k0
I don’t see any sheets.
And she’s using her right hand.
Yuck.
Art is still lost
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