Chocolate Jesus
Some of you may know of my love of art- I believe the production and appreciation of art elevates us above all other living creatures and shows how we mimic God in creation.
I was interested to read about the furore in New York surrounding the exhibiting of a sculpture called My Sweet Lord. It is a 6ft naked depiction of Jesus made out of chocolate. The artist Cosimo Cavallaro is known for using food in his art used 90kg of chocolate to make the sculpture. Unfortunately due to large Catholic/Christian protest the exhibition has been cancelled. I want to know why? Because the sculpture was naked or because it was made from chocolate and that is disrespectful? How is chocolate more disrespectful than bronze or clay?
What are your thoughts?
Labels: art, Christianity, Easter
posted by Helsalata @ 11:22 am
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1 Comments:
Historically Jesus tends to be depicted from waist upwards so maybe a chocolate bust of Jesus would have been more acceptable!
Also it would have to be symbolically made of white chocolate which is really not chocolate in the true sense so perhaps it was the chocoltae police that got involved
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