3 INTRUDERS IN THE GARDEN OF IDEAL BEAUTY
THREE INTRUDERS IN THE GARDEN OF IDEAL BEAUTY is an 8 X 10 limited edition signed print. It is a reaction to the legions of vacuous Influencers on the Internet and in Congress who are trying to physically and mentally alter society in their own warped image.
The piece was created using the background of my acrylic painting, Muffin Trespassing in the Garden of Ideal Beauty, a large mixed media work available on Artspan. Muffin btw is a cat. I added other famous sculptures, some water, and a duck.
The duck is one of the three intruders. Another is the voluminous Venus of Willendorf. The third. I ain’t telling.
The Venus of Willendorf is a Paleolithic Age stone selfie from a time when women carved figures of themselves. Venus W’s not only fat, she’s old. Like 30,000 years old. Fat and old. She’d make Modern Influencers gag.
Speaking of Paleolithic and influencers, there’s Gwyneth Paltrow and her Paleo diet. Clearly Venus W never followed it. Paltrow and other influencers (what a horrible word!) preach youthfulness and thinness as primary norms. She and other micro-celebrities are inexplicably called “thinspiraters.” I loathe them!
To be young, rail thin, and physically inoffensive like them one must drink moon dust and have bone marrow for meals and repeat Kate Moss’s mantra, Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
Even our Body Shammer-in-Chief himself kicks in. He called old Bruce Springsteen a “dried out prune.” And of an ex-cohort Thump snarled he was a “Fat pig. A slob. A disgusting animal.”
Oh hell! Ignore them all and embrace Lady Gaga’s take on the whole judgment thing. “I heard my body is a topic of conversation,” she said, “but I'm proud of my body and you should be proud of yours too. No matter who you are or what you do, you don't need to cater to anyone or anything to succeed. I don’t really care if they think I’m fat.”
Read Christopher Forth’s “Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life.” It traces the cultural, philosophical, religious and racial connections concerning fat. Or read Caroline Dinner’s “The F*CK IT DIET.”
The piece was created using the background of my acrylic painting, Muffin Trespassing in the Garden of Ideal Beauty, a large mixed media work available on Artspan. Muffin btw is a cat. I added other famous sculptures, some water, and a duck.
The duck is one of the three intruders. Another is the voluminous Venus of Willendorf. The third. I ain’t telling.
The Venus of Willendorf is a Paleolithic Age stone selfie from a time when women carved figures of themselves. Venus W’s not only fat, she’s old. Like 30,000 years old. Fat and old. She’d make Modern Influencers gag.
Speaking of Paleolithic and influencers, there’s Gwyneth Paltrow and her Paleo diet. Clearly Venus W never followed it. Paltrow and other influencers (what a horrible word!) preach youthfulness and thinness as primary norms. She and other micro-celebrities are inexplicably called “thinspiraters.” I loathe them!
To be young, rail thin, and physically inoffensive like them one must drink moon dust and have bone marrow for meals and repeat Kate Moss’s mantra, Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
Even our Body Shammer-in-Chief himself kicks in. He called old Bruce Springsteen a “dried out prune.” And of an ex-cohort Thump snarled he was a “Fat pig. A slob. A disgusting animal.”
Oh hell! Ignore them all and embrace Lady Gaga’s take on the whole judgment thing. “I heard my body is a topic of conversation,” she said, “but I'm proud of my body and you should be proud of yours too. No matter who you are or what you do, you don't need to cater to anyone or anything to succeed. I don’t really care if they think I’m fat.”
Read Christopher Forth’s “Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life.” It traces the cultural, philosophical, religious and racial connections concerning fat. Or read Caroline Dinner’s “The F*CK IT DIET.”