This is a ‘creation’ involving what looks like a crucifix. If it helps, you could imagine a statue of your favourite god instead.
Now for the fun part: Well, it is plastic crucifix in a jar of the artist’s urine. [Here is the entire explanation.]
Before you get outraged (more so if you heeded my advice and imagined your favourite god), here is how art can help push boundaries: Stop for a moment and think why urine is bad? Or why it has any negative connotation at all?
Because we decided so.
Just as easily, we could decide not so.
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If you’re Christian, I do respect your outrage at the above creation — as long as your reaction does not infringe on someone else’s rights.
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Link via Raghu.
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September 28, 2010 at 6:32 am
Apoorva Sripathi
I like how you explained urine does not have a negative connotation!
A really nice post
September 28, 2010 at 11:58 am
Deepak Iyer
Thank you.
Although now I’m curious what was it that you entered into Google that brought you here ..
September 30, 2010 at 6:35 am
Apoorva Sripathi
Haha no I saw this blog via twitter
September 29, 2010 at 2:34 pm
V
Have you heard of this incident?
http://tinyurl.com/buddhist-protest
September 29, 2010 at 2:53 pm
V
And here’s a thought as to the negative connotation associated with urine: It is excreta. It is waste. It is matter rejected by your body. It is toxic. And most of all, it smells bad.
Artists have been known to push boundaries and it has become quite somewhat quotidian to expect the same, or even perhaps nothing less. There are some who will push these understandable but highly subjective boundaries and, in doing so, would even realize that they have crossed the line in the eyes of others. Judge Stewart Potter famously said, “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it…”
Perhaps that’s the key: I know it when I see it.
September 29, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Deepak Iyer
“And here’s a thought as to the negative connotation associated with urine: It is excreta. It is waste. It is matter rejected by your body. It is toxic. And most of all, it smells bad.”
In proving why on thing is considered negative, you used 4 words of a negative connotation without proof: Excreta, waste, rejected, toxic [:)].
Even assuming them as bad, I’m sure you can come up with examples of each of those that are in fact good. Many things around us some from rejected/waste matter.
September 29, 2010 at 3:48 pm
V
Yes, there are ways to look at this positively. See… it is both interesting and enlightening to argue both sides, and it certainly requires a not-so-common level of perceptiveness and ergo makes it a great skill to possess. But I don’t get why you say this is “without proof.” This may not exactly be Q.E.D. but what I did is simply identify its fundamental characteristics, which are again simply words.
It is good to get it out of your system. It causes harm to a system that cannot expel it. But hey, it can still be funny: