Reply #15: This is exactly what that piece was designed to do.

[Plaid Adder]

I am convinced that the whole thing is calculated and that the sculpture is ironic. Anyone who reads the tabloid press about Spears knows two things:

* She had an elective C-section because she didn't want to go through labor.
* She has distinguished herself as a mother by driving with the kid on her lap, conveniently positioned for flying through the windshield in case she stops short.

That sculpture is of something that never happened. It represents a fantasy, and I don't think it's the artist's fantasy either. It's meant to represent the pro-life vision of the female body: a groveling, submissive, violable, eternally pregnant fetish object. The fact that combining the porno pose with the emerging baby's head freaks people the hell out is precisely the point.

By calling it a "Pro-Life Monument" and issuing a deadpan press release, the artist is forcing the pro-life PR machine to either embrace this horrible thing and look like people who need serious professional help, or reject it and look like hypocrites. ("What, you don't think birth is beautiful?")

Mark my words,

The Plaid Adder