My friends, have you seen the new MLK statue in Boston?
What do they have against the poor guy to do this to him?
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Opinions, art, debate
Opinions, art, debate
My friends, have you seen the new MLK statue in Boston?
What do they have against the poor guy to do this to him?
Clarissa's Blog 
“What do they have against the poor guy”
I just assume it’s part of the modern “make everything ugly” aesthetic… supposedly it’s part of a famous picture of him and his wife embracing, but the execution…. from one angle it looks like disembodied hands holding a giant… member and from another like a giant turd….
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When looking at this structure from the angles intended by the sculptor, the statue looks either like a pair of male arms in a business suit embracing a missing female body, or a pair of bare female arms (wearing a bracelet on the left forearm) touching a man’s shoulders that are not attached to any discernable male body. The problem is that the absence of heads above the arms and torsos below the shoulders results in a bizarre image that confounds many viewers.
So they use their imagination and interpret incomplete body parts on the sculpture as phallic symbols (per the Tucker Carlson show) or equally inappropriate bodily excretions.
To be perfectly clear: IAM MOT CRITICIZING THE VIEWERS OF THIS WORK! Their misunderstanding of this sculpture is the fault of the well-meaning sculptor, who apparently doesn’t understand that bizarre and highly symbolic works of art belong deep inside art museums, where highly-paid “experts” can explain to the middle-class hoi-polloi what they’re actually supposed to be seeing.
Sculptures of famous people in public parts should look recognizably like the people they’re supposed to represent. (That way, their statues can be admired by the public during the transient period while their contributions are considered politically correct, and then be promptly torn down when a new woke crowd decides that they have to be erased from history.)
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Fascinating. People see in this sculpture whatever their Freudian fixation is. I don’t see anything excretionary or phallic because I have no trauma in the phallic or anal stages of development. But I clearly see a man giving a woman oral sex. All of my many traumas are in the oral stage, and that’s what I end up seeing.
I take back my criticism of the sculpture. It’s a tribute to Freud, not MLK, and it that capacity it works.
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” clearly see a man giving a woman oral sex”
I can see that once you point it out… but it’s a woman giving a woman oral sex (the bracelet…).
Here’s the picture it’s supposed to be based on…
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It didn’t look like a penis in the pic you used. But I think it does here (albeit not a very well made representation of one.) But I can definitely buy that I have phallic stage issues.
https://twitter.com/ronin19217435/status/1614767216032899072?t=IafxlrYhC3LsyILKbfoPnQ
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There was a whole segment on the Daily Show that agrees with your interpretation (looks like MLK is going down on his wife).
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Hah! I knew it! It couldn’t have been just me seeing it so clearly.
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It does have a sort of Lovecraftian vibe to it. Needs more tentacles.
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The memewars crowd took a few moments away from Canadian Medical MurderDeathKill to focus on this … thing.
So … yes, Demotrash, we’re going there, because the best meme evar of the lot was the one with Madeline Kahn as Lili von Shtupp in “Blazing Saddles” saying, “Oh, it’s true, it’s true, it’s true”.
And as such we have all been “gifted” by this statue. 🙂
Let’s hear it from the peanut gallery: BUT THAT’S RACIST.
Tell it to Richard Pryor.
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