Sculptor Daniel Edwards Bronzes Oprah
While Oprah was "breaking new ground" with her "boldest" Book Club choice yet: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle, American sculptor Daniel Edwards was revealing a new King-Tut like Bronze statue of the media queen. Mr. Edwards is that guy who made that weirdo sculpture of Britney giving birth a couple years ago (remember that?). "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston" was considered Pro-Life's first monument to the "act of giving birth" and was placed in a Williamsburg gallery. He also made "Presidential Bust of Hillary Rodham Clinton," "Suri's Bronzed Baby Poop" and "Paris Hilton's Autopsy," among others. Mr. Edwards' latest work "The Oprah Sarcophagus" pays homage to the closest thing America has to a living deity, according to the artist. But we thought Oprah didn't want to be a mummy!
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Edwards' sculptures makes me uncomfortable, perhaps because he exaggerates his subject's dominant feature/flaw. There's Spears' commercial sexuality, Hilton's supine emptiness and Winfrey's mother-to-the-world physique/psyche. In a celeb-crazy world full of adulation and imitation, his renderings are far from flattering, aren't they? I like to think of Edwards as a visual satirist/pundit in the Hogarthian vein.
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Coming Soon Underneath Harpo Studio Chairs: The Miniature Oprah Deity
CELEBRITY GOSSIPS ARE BETTING THAT AMERICA'S FIRST LADY OF TV, OPRAH,
WON'T COTTON TO THE "OPRAH SARCOPHAGUS" CREATED BY DANIEL EDWARDS, A
NATIVE OF LAPORTE, INDIANA, where the Big "O" once owned property.
But Crabby thinks they underestimate the world's favorite faux
goddess's smug delight at being compared to a deity and is betting
that miniature versions soon show up underneath Harpo Studio seats.
Check out http://www.crabbygolightly.com. Taking a dim view of
celebrity, media and power.