Posted on 11/12/2001 9:45:29 AM PST by jalisco555
BOULDER — A controversial art display featuring 21 brightly colored ceramic penises was stolen Saturday from a domestic violence awareness exhibit at a public library.
The work, entitled "Hanging 'Em Out to Dry," was suspended from a clothesline. Someone removed the penises from the clothesline and replaced them with an American flag and a note with a joking reference to a bandit, city spokeswoman Jennifer Bray said.
The library was criticized this month when officials declined to hang a 10- by 15-foot American flag in the lobby, saying it was too big. A smaller flag was put there instead.
Artist Susanne Walker, who created the work, said the theft contradicts the values symbolized by the flag.
"It makes a joke of the pain and suffering involved in this exhibit. If you want to attack me or my artwork, then confront me with discussion," Walker said in a written statement hung in the gallery Saturday.
Police believe the theft occurred in the morning while the library was open. The exhibit is near an auditorium where a children's performance was held Saturday, and police hope someone might have witnessed the theft.
The exhibit, entitled, "Art Triumphs Over Violence," also includes paintings. It is sponsored by the Boulder County Safehouse, which shelters and supports battered women and children.
Many of the works were done by former abuse victims or their relatives.
The stolen artwork, which became a hot topic on talk radio, was placed in a corner, out of the direct view of people entering the library.
Officials also posted a sign warning people they might be offended by the display.
Ummm . . . you confronted people with offensive "artwork". If you have a visceral hatred for men, sweetcheeks, maybe you should opt for discussion instead of ceramic schwantzes.
Then it wasn't stolen.
This is great.
If they put them back up, then go in a take them down and put them in a box again.
Tell them this is how it will be. Don't destory the lady's valuable property, just take it down, in full view and in full sight of the library staff after infomring them what you are going to do and why.
"It makes a joke of the pain and suffering involved in this exhibit."
What about the pain and suffering implied to men -- the fictitious owners of those fictitious penises? Or doesn't that matter, because they're men?
"If you want to attack me or my artwork, then confront me with discussion..." (said the artist).
How about: If the artist wants to attack men or whatever she has against men, then confront them directly with discussion instead of symbolically, sickly, cutting off their penises? (And can you imagine what kind of mentality would sit and make these things??? Hmmm... what a mental image is presenting itself to me...)
Heck, you never know, Miss Suzy might have enjoyed that!
I see more and more of this, just people, quietly, deliberately, taking back the country from liberals and other nihilist-deconstructionist-d*ckweeds.
No jury will convict.
Let's roll!!
O.K.
Your sick, perverted, warped sense of humor is despicable. To hang up penises on a close line and display them before young children takes a sick mind. You obviously are a cock(y) (pun intended) pervert intent on pushing your demented art on others. Well, first of all it is not art...ITS TRASH. Secondly, crawl back into the hole you came from and take the TRASH out with you!
Sincerely go f*ck yourself! You've got plenty to work with.
Methinks not.
MM
Police are questioning the members of the local NOW chapter that met last night in a library room.
"It makes a joke of the pain and suffering involved in this exhibit. If you want to attack me or my artwork, then confront me with discussion," Walker said in a written statement hung in the gallery Saturday.
Yawn! Granola and tofu alert, y'all.
Odd that a womans victim group would promote this.
More likely the artwork contradicts the values symbolized by the flag. No offense intended to victims of abuse, believe me. I am one myself. But offending anyone in a general sense because they are male or female, any race or religion, etc. only creates more violence and hostility. How much does humanity have to suffer before it realizes this simple truth...then again, I do not think we ever will.
Well put!
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