Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

January 24, 2007

Eucharist



Holy communion batman!


How cool is this? I actually like the painting of the baby being annointed with blood the best (the baptism of jajo), but I thought that would be a bit much for some of y'all. Click on "blood" or "the meat show" to see the good stuff. Not that all is stuff ain't good...





Painting copyright Mark Ryden.

January 19, 2007

Green Eyes

This is Green Eyes. I am in love with these jeans; I had a blast creating the embroidery. Tessa thinks her hair is the same as the doll. She said, "It's me, only black!" Umm, Tessa, you have blue eyes sweetie, and you lack boobs and hips! Doll base is from Zandora's Place. My only issue is that it looks like she is squatting!

Green Eyes isn't much of a name, though. What do you think we should name her?

January 10, 2007

The School Fired the Butt Print Art Teacher!

You're kidding me!

"In its decision, the board reasoned that students have a right to receive their education in a positive learning environment free from distractions and disruptions, Marlow said. The decision also is in keeping with court rulings that hold that teachers are expected to lead by example, be role models and honor core values, she said.

The school system operates under an ideal that holds respect, responsibility, honesty and accountability as core values for all students and employees to abide, and the board clearly felt that Murmer had gone outside those parameters with his art."

I have problems with the reasons for his termination. Sex is not bad! Our bodes are not bad! Exploration, using our bodies, experimentation, is not disrespectful, nor is it anti values. Who determines core values anyway?

Oh, and as for free of distractions and disruptions, it is the school itself that created the controversy and the disruption:

"The unique approach to art became a topic when a clip showing Murmer, wearing a fake nose and glasses, a towel on his head and black thong, turned up on YouTube.com.

That video inevitably made its way to the high school.

Willis noted that it wasn't until the county decided to suspend Murmer a month ago that the video illustrating his unusual approach to art became a topic of discussion."

Don't get me started on the public school system, society, or social mores. Just don't! We seriously don't want to go there. Or maybe we do...

photo: http://buttprintart.com/